On Mar 11, 2021, at 10:41 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
If you pump 100s of megawatts of energy into a confined space (i.e. a large data center), and there is an uncontrolled release of that energy (i.e. a fire), that's a lot of energy which is going to go somewhere. Stored energy, batteries, backup fuel for generators, server plastic, etc. There is a lot of stuff that can burn in a data center, especially if you start over-stuffing it.
China has the top 7 data centers over 100 megawatts.
http://worldstopdatacenters.com/power/
Ok, an ISP may not have a mega datacenter. Even "small" data centers have a large fuel load. They are major industrial operations. Like other major industrial fires, often the firefighter response is to rescue any trapped people and then contain the fire until it burns itself out.
The "cloud" is just someone else's physical data center.
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