North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: WEATHER: rolling blackouts along the East Coast
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Gregory Urban was rumored to have said.. > > Let's not forget that a/c units in data centers, NOC's, and customer > service call centers have been running 24x7 as the night time temperatures > have not dropped below 80 in many cities on the east cost for days (it's > over 90 in DC at 1:00am). Units in commercial office buildings > have shut down, and repair times are not good. The consequences of a > failure are more obvious than the solutions for those running off of > building a/c units and/or smaller individual a/c systems. Hmm. Those folks might be better served by studying data center environments in the South or Southwest - ie Phoenix, Dallas, etc. Those folks generally don't seem to be unduly alarmed by operational impact since they've planned for it one way or another from day one, AFAIK. As a side note, I got hit by brief blackouts in my building that affected equipment not in the computer room (ie workstations; computer room on an industrial strength UPS - and I don't mean APS units :) ) yesterday - not sure, but suspect had to do with the rolling blackouts(?). As for the air conditioning units...good point. -Dan
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