Oh and, "Hi , NSA!!!!"
Power design in datacenters is pretty much settled science. Sounds like incompetence to me.
Probably their Wind Generators are bad!!!
FedGov? Check.
Incompetent engineering... Check.
Or deniability. If any authority demands to know what data they are storing they can just say "the power surge ate it".
Oh and, "Hi , NSA!!!!"
Total incompetence. Arc faults?! Those are COLOSSAL electrical failures. If you’ve never had the pleasure of being in a room when an arc fault occurs, count yourself lucky. The sound is deafening and you can feel the heat from 20 feet away. These are either deliberate sabotage events or complete incompetence on the part of the contractor. With automatic transfer switches, you have to wrench down the connectors with such torque that they make special wrenches to do just that. Any air gaps in a system carrying that much juice means instant death for anyone unlucky enough to be around when it arcs.
This is a poorly designed system all around, according to the WSJ article. They’re having cooling and generator systems issues? Having stood up 3 datacenters in my professional career, I can tell you that those sort of oversights would NOT be tolerated in the private sector. Those are career ending engineering oversights.
And I can personally tell you that if you can’t provide adequate cooling to a data center, you’re just asking for a hardware meltdown, esp. on the systems the NSA is purportedly using.
Sounds like prayers answered. Too stupid to build a working data center that holds all our data.
Even 1984 used a meritocracy via exams so that the top 2% were the smartest.
Exactly. They are just incompetent or hired the people who designed Amazon’s VA data center.
It couldn't be incompetence, the gov’t hired one of Obama’s or Jarrett's nephews to run the construction....