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This is taken from https://data-economy.com , just yesterday if that's any coincidence at all
‘Hell is coming’ – What Europe’s killer heatwave hotter than Death Valley means for data centre businesses . . .
By João Marques Lima 
Published: 21:35, 30 June, 2019 Updated: 02:36, 1 July, 2019

"Every data centre owner’s worst nightmare is a lights-out event. Sometimes, this s down to human error and could be avoided. But other times, an outage could be completely out of control from those in charge. As Europe faces one of the worst heat waves in its history, Data Economy looks at how the extreme event is both a challenge and lesson to colocation companies".

We are experiencing the same thing here, like the heat wave that is sizzling Europe.

 

". . .The heat wave is being experienced by more than 320 million people across the continent with several measures put in place by local authorities in an attempt to curb the consequences of the severe heat.
Such event is, nonetheless, limited solely to people but also infrastructure. In previous years, there have been reports of roads melting, rivers running dry and smog engulfing entire cities. . . "

How does it impact data centres?

In a worst case scenario, during a heat wave, a data centre could face downtime as a result of several circumstances including IT equipment overheating, UPSs coming alight, electrical systems failing, power outages and other events.
In extreme scenarios, a data centre building could fall victim to a wildfire and be consumed by flames, something hard to prepare any building for. It is also important to highlight that a fire in a data centre could lead to the loss of life, as it has happened in several occasions in the past.
According to Capitoline, between 2008 and 2018 there have been 53 data centre outages globally cause by fire. This works out as an average of over five per year and the sample only counts with publicly recorded major outages caused by fires and does not represent the total number of data centres affected by fire in the period.

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IN OTHER DATA CENTER NEWS,

H5 Data Centers sues Grant County over $116.7m 2018 data centre tax assessment

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By Abigail Opiah Published: 13:52, 2 July, 2019 Updated: 13:52, 2 July, 2019

". . . The Grant County Assessor appraised the subject property on an erroneous basis, resulting in a taxable assessed value that exceeded the subject property’s market value on January 1, 2017,” Garvey Barer, H5’s Seattle-based attorney, wrote in a filing with the Douglas County Superior Court dated June 24.

“Grant County’s action in collecting taxes based upon the illegal, erroneous and excessive assessments violates the property tax provisions [of Washington state law], and the equal protection requirements of the Washington and United States constitutions.”
Elsewhere two months ago, H5 Data Centers announced a 25,000 sq ft expansion of its Phoenix colocation facility in Chandler, Arizona.
The company revealed that the second phase development at the 180,000 sq ft data centre facility adds infrastructure capacity to the data centre campus.
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