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Recovery exceeds 50 pct following state data center fire

More than 50 percent of the government's online administrative services affected by a fire at a state data center last month ...
wtvr

What we're learning about multiple fires at this Chesterfield data center

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — The operators of Chirisa Technology Parks have committed to replacing all batteries at their Chesterfield data center after a fourth fire incident prompted concerns from ...
The New York Times

Fire at South Korean Data Center Causes Government Service Outages

Hundreds of state services were still offline the day after a lithium battery exploded during maintenance work at a data center, officials said. The fire was extinguished on Saturday. By John Yoon and ...

A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke

With so much of our personal and professional lives stored in the cloud, it's easy to forget just how fragile these systems ...
CRN

Authorities: Digital Realty Data Center Fire Began In Schneider Electric Cabinet, But Cause ‘Undetermined’

The May 22 blaze began inside a Galaxy VX 250kVA 400/480V Power Cabinet, a fire department investigation found. It resulted in no injuries and was contained to one room but caused $250,000 in damage ...
Wired

X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say

A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or mechanical issue in a power system, according to an official fire investigation. WIRED was the ...
WRIC

Second fire in weeks raises concerns at Chesterfield data center

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Chesterfield County firefighters spent hours at Chirisa Technology Park on Monday after officials said flames broke out inside a room in the data center, marking the ...
CNN

Explosive battery blaze in South Korea ‘paralyzes’ vital government services

A major fire at South Korea’s national data center has halted hundreds of online government services including postal and tax facilities, Reuters reported. The blaze likely began with an explosion of ...
The Progress-Index

Why have there been 4 fires at data center in 1 year? Chesterfield, Chirisa investigating

County fire authorities and the company, Chirisa Technology Parks, are investigating the cause of the fires. The incidents involved batteries and were contained by sprinkler systems, with no injuries ...
WRIC

Firefighters respond to another blaze at Chesterfield data center just weeks after previous fire

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Just weeks after a fire blazed inside a room in a Chesterfield data center, firefighters responded to another blaze at the same location Monday morning. In the ...

858TB gone forever: South Korea's data center fire shows the cost of no backups

On September 26, technicians were relocating lithium-ion batteries in the NIRS data center. Forty minutes later, the batteries exploded, causing a blazing inferno ...