Originally Posted by renegade50
Originally Posted by ElkSlayer91
Originally Posted by RickBin
On Easter Sunday, the data center where our server is located suffered:

A power surge, which caused
A power outage, which caused
Backup generators to deploy, which caused
A fire in one of the backup generators, which caused
Fire sprinklers to come on.
News from the datacenter was slim, except to tell us that they were awaiting a city inspector on Monday to approve turning the power back on.Rick Bin

I don't believe they told you the truth here.

First, generators are "outside", so any fire suppression system to extinguish a generator fire would go off "outside", not indoors where the servers are.

Next, fire suppression would be a Halon system for a generator, being fuel is involved, not a water sourced sprinkler system.

Wouldnt most electronic storage areas/ high voltage places be coded against a water based fire suppression system???

Water and electric dont mix sorta thing???

Grandfathered building???
Exempt from codes???

Yeah, something about hair driers, bathtubs, and life insurance.

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