It's entirely possible that the operators have a purpose-built interior room that is comprehensively fireproof and robustly separated from the technology part of the data center facility. Obviously I'm just speculating here - and more importantly, I don't have any information about the internal layout of the structure. Its the only visible sign I could see of anything that looks like it could handle hot exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine powering an electrical generator. If you look at the roof line, near the centre of the image, you will see a rotating-vent exhaust that looks like it might be connected to say a central heating system or similar. The closes I could get to spotting it can be seen in this Google Streetview image". If you explore the Google Maps view, one of the things that you will not see is an external generator associated with this WebNX facility. Here is a Google Maps view of the same building from a near-identical location as the photograph from the "Data Center Frontier". With a little bit of help from this article, I was able to locate the data center in question using Google Maps. No fire damage was inflicted on customer servers." Those builds have a high probability that data is intact." They added: "Customer's servers in one of our main bays were exposed to water and possible damage may have occurred. "Some servers will have an extended outage as they may require rebuilds due to some water damage. "However, during that transition, one of our backup generators that had been recently tested and benchmarked specifically for this situation experienced a catastrophic failure, caught fire, and as a result initiated the fire suppression protocol." "Sunday afternoon the city power was disrupted and, as designed, our backup generators automatically switched on," the company said in a Facebook post. He also confirmed that some of Ogden City's IT services were down on Sunday and Monday as a result of the data center fire. He said power was cut to the building until an electrical engineer could inspect the facility to make sure current could be restored safely, which he added is standard procedure. The fire, he said, "originated in a generator in the building and spread to several servers." Brown said the facility's fire suppression system contained the blaze and that fire department personnel assisted with the cleanup. Kevin Brown, Fire Marshal for the US city's Fire Department told The Register in a phone interview that firefighters responded to a call on Sunday evening.
#Data backup generator kicks in during Offline
Joe_Dragon shares a report from The Register: A power outage kicked off a fire in web hosting biz WebNX's Ogden data center in Utah on Sunday, knocking the facility offline temporarily and leaving several servers in need of a rebuild.
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