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I wonder how nervous all these hyperscale data center projects are getting watching the Wildberries warehouses burn. The Amazon facility that got hit in the Gulf is an interesting case study in what could happen. The most vulnerable bit would be the substation or electric yard. Then after that it would be the cooling systems which are more spread out. That would knock a facility offline immediately although it could be repaired and back online in weeks to months. Actually burning down an entire facility and taking all of the servers with it would be a bit more tough (require more energetic materials). The recent spate of warehouse fires in the USA is also instructive. It seems that at least in a few cases the fire suppression systems did not work. I wonder if that's also what's happening to those Wildberries warehouses... Maybe their fire suppression systems aren't working. Can data centers and logistics warehouses buy or lease air defense systems? Hmmm perhaps air defense systems for warehouses and data centers will be a growth industry soon. And followed shortly thereafter by underground data centers. There are plenty of abandoned mines that could start hosting servers.