Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating
On 1/15/24 10:37, Pennington, Scott wrote:
yes but.... it has been -8 in Chicago plenty of times before this. Very interested in root cause...
Absolutely. My point was that claiming "Global warming" isn't going to fly as an excuse.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+scott.pennington=cinbell.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> *Sent:* Monday, January 15, 2024 1:31 PM *To:* nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> *Subject:* Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating On 1/15/24 07:21, Mel Beckman wrote:
Easy. Climate change. Lol!
It was -8°F in Chicago yesterday.
On Jan 15, 2024, at 7:17 AM, sronan@ronan-online.com wrote:
I’m more interested in how you lose six chillers all at once.
-- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
On 1/15/24 10:37, Pennington, Scott wrote:
yes but.... it has been -8 in Chicago plenty of times before this. Very interested in root cause...
Absolutely. My point was that claiming "Global warming" isn't going to fly as an excuse.
+1 Is their design N+1? https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-coloc... We're not smashing temp records in Chicago. At least it doesn't seem so when you look across historical data: https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records HTH, -M<
On 1/15/24 23:11, Martin Hannigan wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net <mailto:jay@west.net>> wrote:
On 1/15/24 10:37, Pennington, Scott wrote: > yes but.... it has been -8 in Chicago plenty of times before this. > Very interested in root cause...
Absolutely. My point was that claiming "Global warming" isn't going to fly as an excuse.
+1
Is their design N+1?
https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-coloc... <https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/chicago-data-centers/ch1>
We're not smashing temp records in Chicago. At least it doesn't seem so when you look across historical data:
https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records <https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records>
HTH,
-M<
I was at that "hypothetical" location once when it was -17º F ... No issues then ... I really have to wonder how six chillers all failed at once.
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