this happened to a dupont fabros facility in northern va in I wanna say ~2012? derecho storms hammered the area and killed power. external power lines in fail

this happened to a dupont fabros facility in northern va in I wanna say ~2012? derecho storms hammered the area and killed power. external power lines in failed, and the ATS hung or died when switching to the N+1 diesel generators. since it never got switched to diesel, the UPS systems kept things going for the standard interval (e.g. ~3-5 minutes) and then ran out of power, and then everything went down. AWS died and IIRC it took a lot of stuff with it, most notably reddit, etc.