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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/servers-data-centre/infrastructure-management/news/index.cfm?newsid=2413

An air conditioning breakdown forced a shut-down of government computers in Florida earlier this week, amid fears that overheating could permanently damage datacentre servers.

The critical air conditioning service has now been restored to a Florida state government datacentre, after staff scrambled to replace a failed chiller with a back-up delivered by police escort from outside the state.

The crisis began on Monday at 5.15pm local time, when a water leak was discovered in cooler at the 1,200-server datacentre that provides computing power to the office of the state governor, the department of revenue and other government agencies.

If your datacenter air conditioning fails, all being well the servers should continue, most are rated to about 40 degrees celcius, and then the thermal sensors will tell the server to shut itself down, dependent therefore on the volume and density of your datacenter will drive how long you can stay online. Check out the article it’s an interesting read.  How would your infrastructure cope?

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