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• Photos of Fire Damage at Fisher Plaza

  July 7th, 2009 : Rich Miller

  The Seattle-focused technology blog TechFlash has been working all the local angles on last week’s fire at Fisher Plaza, which left many data centers in the telecom hub without power for more than a day. TechFlash has obtained the Seattle Fire Department’s investigation report on the incident, along with photos of the fire damage inside a garage-level electrical room at Fisher Plaza.

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anon

Posted July 7th, 2009

all of the data centers that had outages are ~10 years old. fisher plaza is an office building. how old is rackspace dallas? -did this one have the bakers racks & tower servers in it?? all of these old colo’s are Faking It re the cloud, density, etc. these dc’s were never designed for these loads. >> Fire!!

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