Submitted by acohill on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 10:00
An automobile took down a large Amazon EC2 data center when it crashed into a utility pole near the facility and broke the power line. In a cascading failure, the Amazon data center's backup power system also broke, and the backup power did not work. This is one reason why data centers looking for new locations want to see business parks with power coming from two different sub-stations, and you get bonus points if you have feeds from two entirely different electric companies or grids.
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