A fire at a major carrier hotel in Toronto left several data center customers offline for hours over the weekend. Peer 1 Networks reported that a fire broke out at 2:26 a.m. Sunday (Eastern time) in an eighth-floor electrical room at
151 Front Street [1], the city’s primary telecom hub. The fire broke out in a section of Peer 1 Networks’ colocation facility housing UPS equipment, causing power to be shut off to the seventh and eight floors, and prompting a vigorous response from Toronto emergency services, which dispatched at least
17 fire units [2] to the building.
“There was a fire which was localized to the 802 Suite UPS room within the 151 Front Street Facility,” Peer 1 reported on its
forum [3]. “The Fire Department mitigated the fire with dry chemical and CO2 extinguishers. No water was used, and all PEER 1 equipment (with the exception of the UPS), and ALL client equipment is unharmed.” Peer 1 said it was able to bypass the UPS system – which typically is positioned between the utility feed and the data center – and restore power to the affected areas by 5 a.m. Eastern time Sunday morning.
The first broke out two days after a more serious electrical fire at Seattle telecom hub
Fisher Plaza [4] that left many web sites hosted at the building down for more than a day.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] 151 Front Street: http://www.151frontstreet.com/
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[3] forum: http://forums.peer1.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=117
[4] Fisher Plaza : http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/03/major-outage-at-seattle-data-center/
[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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