OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no power cut-out
Disclaimer: I am French and I had servers (well, my employer did, and I was the admin) in that DC.From the report (not the post): something that really annoyed the firemen is that not only was there no universal electrical cut-off, there were 4 different electrical backups, which they had to figure out how to cut off one by one...It's the same thing as the self-cooling design: OVH optimized for what typically matters in a DC. You want an energy-efficient design and you never want power to go down.Well... except when you do. I suppose by now them and other hosting providers have taken that issue into account and are modifying their DC designs accordingly.