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> And the stories that the power guy I'm working with tells > about foreign facilities, particularly in middle east war > zones, are really scary... > We fundamentally do not have the facilities problem > completely nailed down to the point that things will never > drop. Level 4 > datacenters can, and will, fail. Nothing you can do including > just doing 48V DC for everything are truly foolproof solutions. A single level 4 datacenter is a Single Point of Failure! Two of those middle-eastern style facilities is... ? Has anyone actually kept track of all these data center failures over the years and done some statistical analysis on it? Maybe two half-baked data centers is better than one over the long run? Remember that one 10-12 years ago in (Palo Alto, Mountainview?) where a lady in a car caused a backhoe driver to move out of the way which resulted in him cutting a gas line which resulted in the fire department evacuating the data center, cutting off electricity in the area, and forbidding the diesel generators to be switched on? --Michael Dillon
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