Sometimes redundant things are also knocked out, e.g. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-paris-water-fire-europe-west9/ https://www.thestack.technolog

Sometimes redundant things are also knocked out, e.g. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-paris-water-fire-europe-west9/ https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-paris-water-fir... Tl;Dr fire in one data center hall was put out with water, water leaked into other hall's power generator and battery area. Turns out loads of water and power generation equipment don't mix well, and servers don't like sitting in puddles of water. Another one was where the whole building burnt down rather than "just" the power equipment. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovhclouds-sbg2-data-center-strasbourg/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovh...