Fire reported at building housing Yandex data centre in Sasovo

What happened

A building in Sasovo, Ryazan Region, Russia, that houses the Sasta plant and the Yandex DC Sasovo data centre was reported to be on fire. The report, which cites local open-source channels, says a power supply disruption was recorded and that a wide range of Yandex Cloud services became unavailable, including computing, networks, data storage, databases, Kubernetes, cloud services, AI, and security and monitoring systems. The data centre is described as having a stated power capacity of up to 12 MW. It is not reported which part of the building was burning, what started the fire, or whether anyone was injured.

Contributing factors

Not reported.

Lessons learned

1. A fire in a shared building can interrupt data centre power and cloud services even when the cause is not yet known.
2. Operators should be able to say quickly which services depend on a single site's power supply.
3. Early public reports should be treated as incomplete until the affected equipment and the extent of the fire are confirmed.

More lessons on outages, backup supply and restoration, emergency response and public communication, from every incident on the register.

Source

unn.ua