Tuesday, June 12, 2018

"It was raining in the data center"

Medium:
“‘Jay, there’s a cloud in the data centre,’
‘What do you mean, outside?’
‘No, inside.’
… It was raining in the data center.”

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The ‘extreme changes’ described in the report above were caused by an accidental feedback loop of high temperature and low humidity air from the hot rows entering a water-based evaporative cooling system.

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“For a few minutes, you could stand in Facebook’s data center and hear the pop and fizzle of Facebook’s ultra-lean servers