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For a _power failure_, yes! It was actually a pretty wild failure. They had a litreal Derecho blow through, and it knocked some neighboring power lines down (t
by exabrial 3y ago
For a _power failure_, yes! It was actually a pretty wild failure.
They had a litreal Derecho blow through, and it knocked some neighboring power lines down (that weren't attached to the datacenter) against their outdoor switch gear. This caused power that wasn't supposed to be there to be fed into their feeds and blew out some transfer switch gear.
Their main feeds are actually underground, but never did they think other powerlines hitting their equipment would be an issue. They've since encaged all of their switchgear with an approved grounded metal fence.