Data center explosion

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:48 pm

The company we are with had one of their data centers explode, well, part of it.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid ... 01/1715247

We're apparently not in that DC or the shard would be down atm.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:29 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:The company we are with had one of their data centers explode, well, part of it.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid ... 01/1715247

We're apparently not in that DC or the shard would be down atm.

lol ouch. Damn that Murphy's Law. I've been subject to that a few times this year.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:25 pm

I hope they'll have pics, I want to see how bad the damage was. It took out 3 walls, so guessing it was quite a massive explosion.

Remember kids, playing with electricity is bad. (not that it ever stopped me from doing it as a kid)

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:56 pm

my roommates dad made an electric chair when he was a kid, they used to put their cousins in it and plug it into the wall.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:46 am

You should see the electrical plugs for our bladeserver. When we first bought it, facilities just stared at them because they never saw anything that big. Dual 220 volt, 60 Amps EACH.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:16 am

Sounds fun! Now wheres that paper clip?

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:24 am

Red Squirrel wrote:Sounds fun! Now wheres that paper clip?

Haha, I bet a paper clip would be instantly vaporized and all the hair and eyelashes on everyone's head standing within 3 meters would be gone.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:36 am

dprantl wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote:Sounds fun! Now wheres that paper clip?
Haha, I bet a paper clip would be instantly vaporized and all the hair and eyelashes on everyone's head standing within 3 meters would be gone.

lol everyone leaves that room looking like the dude from the movie "Powder".

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j4bber · Post by **j4bber** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:46 pm

we had a guy drop a wrench on the exposed battery backup for one of our microwave towers once. melted the wrench in half. and blew most of the fuses on the gear in teh tower. was not a good day

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:44 pm

Ouch I heard of this happening in a large telco in Toronto. Toronto happens to be a large hub for telecom and it was all down... SO many affected customers and critical stuff, quite scary. Basically the building itself blew up from the large magnetic field, ripping cables right out of concrete walls. I should google this could probably find an article (and pics

) of it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:47 pm

For those interested, some pics, nothing much, just the outside (don't see any damage, just generators)

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showth ... p?t=340505

I'm hoping someone took pics of the inside, I'd be curious to see how bad it was.

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