数据中心火灾专题（中）——2023年全球数据中心7次重大火灾案例回顾
September 3, 202
上篇回顾：【数据中心火灾专题（中）--数据中心火灾事故的原因分析】
数据中心采用先进的消防系统，并实施全面的预防、检测和抑制策略，以减轻潜在的火灾危险。尽管采取了这些措施，数据中心火灾虽然看似罕见，每年在全球数千个设施中只发生几起重大事件，但仍构成了不容忽视的重大威胁。
火灾起因是电气控制室漏水，引发轻微爆炸。这次爆炸导致变压器短路，导致室内三处转换开关断电。尽管现场备用发电机短暂恢复了电力，但它也发生了故障，导致数据中心依赖于其备用电池。
The fire originated from a water leak in the electrical control room, triggering a minor explosion. This explosion caused a transformer to short-circuit, disabling power to three switches in the building. Although an on-site backup generator briefly restored power, it too malfunctioned, leaving the data center dependent on its battery backup.
面对这些挑战，Windstream的技术团队不得不关闭三处转换开关，影响了内布拉斯加州亚当斯县、盖奇县、奥托县和桑德斯县的911连接。东南地区的其他县也可能出现服务中断的情况。幸运的是，没有人员受伤的报告。消防队员使用干粉和二氧化碳灭火器成功扑灭了大火。
Faced with these challenges, Windstream’s technical team had to shut down one of the three switches, affecting 911 connectivity in Nebraska’s Adams, Gage, Otoe, and Saunders Counties. Other counties in the Southeast region might have also experienced service interruptions. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries. Firefighters successfully put out the fire using dry chemicals and CO2 extinguishers.
2023年8月，比利时最大无线运营商和固定宽带提供商Proximus运营的Netcenter Evere数据中心发生火灾。位于布鲁塞尔东北郊埃弗雷（Evere）卡利街 1140号的该设施遭受了严重破坏。
In August 2023, a fire erupted at the Netcenter Evere data center, which is operated by Proximus, Belgium’s largest wireless carrier and fixed broadband provider. Located in Evere, a northeastern suburb of Brussels at Rue Carli, 1140, the facility experienced a significant disruption.
消防队员在90分钟内成功控制了火势，使数据中心恢复正常运行。然而，该事件导致暂时中断，影响了紧急电话服务。具体来说，紧急电话号码112（消防员和救护车）和101（警察）在不到30分钟的时间里都无法拨打。Proximus目前正在调查中断原因。
Firefighters managed to control the fire within 90 minutes, allowing the data center to resume normal operations. However, the incident led to a temporary outage that affected emergency phone services. Specifically, the emergency numbers 112 – for firefighters and ambulances – and 101 – for police – were unavailable for less than 30 minutes. Proximus is currently investigating the cause of the outage.
2023年5月，全球最大的数据中心提供商之一Digital Realty 位于加利福尼亚州埃尔塞贡多东埃尔塞贡多大道2260号的洛杉矶LAX12设施发生重大火灾事件。火灾起源于一个特定的机架，导致这座占地132,000平方英尺的两层设施内的两套设施关闭，该设施支持7.45MW的UPS电力容量。该事件严重扰乱了数据中心的运营。其中一套设施在数小时内就得到了修复，但另一套几天后仍无法使用。
In May 2023, Digital Realty, one of the world’s largest data center providers, experienced a significant fire incident at its Los Angeles LAX12 facility, located at 2260 East El Segundo Boulevard in El Segundo, California. The fire, which originated in a specific rack, prompted a shutdown of two suites within the two-story, 132,000 square foot facility, which supports 7.45 megawatts of UPS power capacity. This incident considerably disrupted the data center’s operations. One suite was restored within hours, however another remained out of commission for several days.
火灾触发了主机托管空间的喷水灭火系统，导致许多服务器遭受水浸。这种损害对于Evocative来说尤其严重，Evocative是一家以Krypt品牌运营并持有前VPLS 和INAP旗下资产的托管服务提供商。尽管调查仍在进行中，但起火的确切原因仍未确定。
The fire triggered the sprinkler system in the colocation space, resulting in water damage to many servers. This damage was particularly severe for Evocative, a managed services provider that operates under the brand Krypt and holds assets from the former VPLS and INAP banners. Despite ongoing investigations, the exact cause of the fire remains undetermined.
2023年4月，欧洲和亚太地区主要数据中心运营商Global Switch位于法国巴黎西北部郊区克利希Rue Petit 7-9号的巴黎东和巴黎西数据中心发生火灾。该设施共有六层，总面积为555,612平方英尺（51,618平方米），现有和规划总容量为59 MVA，由于电池室起火，该设施经历了4 个半小时的中断。
In April 2023, Global Switch, a major data center operator in Europe and Asia-Pacific, experienced a fire at its Paris East and Paris West data centers located at 7-9 Rue Petit in Clichy, France, a suburb in the northwestern region of Paris. The facility, which consists of six floors with 555,612 square feet (51,618 square meters) of gross space and 59 MVA of current and planned capacity, faced disruption for 4 hours and 30 minutes due to a fire in its battery room.
火灾是由冷却系统水泵故障导致漏水引发的，这与数据中心空调系统的问题有关。泄漏的水渗入电池室，与电池组件接触后引发火灾。
The fire was triggered by a water leak resulting from a cooling system water pump failure, which was linked to an issue in the data center’s air conditioning system. The water from the leak infiltrated the battery room, instigating a fire upon contact with the battery components.
虽然火势被控制在电池室，但该事件导致位于Global Switch巴黎数据中心的 Google Cloud Europe-west-9区域的大量数据丢失。该地区遭遇了基础设施故障，影响了多项谷歌云服务，特别是在europe-west9-a区域。最初，漏水只影响了europe-west9-a的一部分，但随后发生的火灾导致整个区域以及europe-west9-c区域的一部分暂时断电。
While the fire was contained to the battery room, the incident resulted in significant data loss for Google Cloud’s europe-west-9 region, which resides in Global Switch’s Paris data centers. This region suffered an infrastructure failure that affected several Google Cloud services, particularly in the europe-west9-a zone. Initially, the water leak had only affected a part of europe-west9-a, but a subsequent fire required the entire zone, along with a portion of the europe-west9-c zone, to be temporarily powered down.
2023年3月，位于法国艾因穆瓦尼昂河畔圣特里维耶，由Adeli运营的Maxnod数据中心发生火灾。该设施占地8,611平方英尺（800平方米），遭受了严重损坏，需要彻底重建。数据中心内的设备也被彻底破坏。
In March 2023, a fire occurred at the Maxnod Datacenter, operated by Adeli, in Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans, Ain, France. Spanning 8,611 square feet (800 square meters), the facility sustained significant damage that necessitated a complete reconstruction of the building. The equipment within the data center was also completely destroyed.
遗憾的是，一名消防员在事件中受轻伤。起火原因可追溯到该设施太阳能电池板的电池室，据信是由锂离子电池引起的。火灾还对数据中心的光缆造成大量损坏，影响了本地光纤到户（FTTH）服务。
Regrettably, one firefighter sustained minor injuries during the incident. The cause of the fire was traced back to the battery room of the facility’s solar panels, believed to have been ignited by a lithium-ion battery. The fire also resulted in extensive damage to the data center’s fiber optic cables, impacting local fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services.
2023年2月，零售托管提供商Cyxtera Technologies位于马萨诸塞州沃尔瑟姆 温特街580号的波士顿BOS1园区发生火灾。该数据中心占地40,500平方英尺，拥有 16MW的市电电力，但遭遇了持续数小时的中断。
In February 2023, Cyxtera Technologies, a retail colocation provider, experienced a fire at its Boston BOS1 Campus located at 580 Winter Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The data center, which boasts 16 megawatts of utility power across 40,500 square feet of raised floor space, underwent a disruption that lasted several hours.
事故起因是数据中心动力室发生弧闪引发爆炸，炸毁了一个电池柜。爆炸的力量如此之大，以至于将电池柜的门炸掉了。随后据报道数据中心内冒烟，追查到损坏的电气设备。
The incident originated from an electrical arc flash in the data center’s power room, which caused an explosion that destroyed a battery cabinet. The force of the explosion was such that it blew the doors off the battery cabinet. Smoke was subsequently reported inside the data center, traced back to the damaged electrical equipment.
尽管建筑结构没有受损，但由此产生的烟雾和爆炸促使当地消防部门出于安全原因强制关闭现场电源，导致大楼内人员疏散。这次断电无意中导致了Cyxtera客户 Oracle NetSuite服务的数据丢失，在恢复过程中丢失了大约30分钟的数据。
Although the building structure remained undamaged, the resulting smoke and explosion prompted the local fire department to enforce a shutdown of power at the site for safety reasons, leading to an evacuation of the building. This power cut inadvertently caused data loss for Oracle’s NetSuite service, a customer of Cyxtera, with approximately 30 minutes of data being lost during the recovery process.
2023年10月26日，位于孟加拉国达卡莫哈卡利社区Bir Uttam AK Khandaker 路的哈瓦贾大厦发生重大火灾。大火从大楼的12层和13层开始，持续了15个多小时才被扑灭。该楼高14层，拥有由NRB Telecom和 Dhakacolo运营的两个重要数据中心。这些设施至关重要，它们连接到多个互联网网关和交换机，并为数百家互联网服务提供商 (ISP) 提供服务。
In October 2023, a significant fire broke out in the Khawaja Tower located on Bir Uttam AK Khandaker Road in the Mohakhali neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The fire, which lasted for over 15 hours before being extinguished, started on the 12th and 13th floors of the building. The tower, standing 14 stories tall, hosted two major data centers operated by NRB Telecom and Dhakacolo. These facilities were vital, connecting to multiple internet gateways and exchanges and servicing hundreds of internet service providers (ISPs).
火灾造成了不同程度的损失。虽然一些设备被烧毁，但其他部分基本上毫发无伤。电缆损坏和必要的电力中断导致服务中断。该事件的直接后果是，孟加拉国1210 万宽带用户中约40%用户面临中断。此外，全国1.2亿移动互联网用户中近20%用户的数据和语音服务均出现中断。
The fire inflicted varying degrees of damage. While some equipment was burned, other parts remained mostly unscathed. Damaged cables and a necessary electricity cut-off resulted in service disruptions. As a direct outcome of this incident, approximately 40% of Bangladesh’s 12.1 million broadband users faced outages. Additionally, close to 20% of the nation’s 120 million mobile internet subscribers experienced disruptions in both data and voice services.
遗憾的是，火灾不仅损害了设备和服务。它还夺去了3人的生命，并造成至少10 人受伤。官方尚未说明火灾的根本原因。然而，尽管有一些灭火器，但由于存在大量可燃材料，而且建筑物明显缺乏全面的安全计划，情况变得更加恶化。
Regrettably, the fire wasn’t just detrimental to equipment and services. It claimed three lives and resulted in at least 10 injuries. The root cause of the blaze has not been officially stated. However, the situation was exacerbated by the presence of numerous combustible materials and an apparent lack of a comprehensive safety plan for the building, despite the presence of some fire extinguishers.
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