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Data centre incidents
Safety incidents, near-misses and operational failures involving data centre assets, with lessons learned.
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- Three-alarm fire reported at a data centre in Ashburn
- Fire damages Crystal City site, Zavala County data centre of NFN8 Group
- Reported fire at an AWS data centre in Bahrain after alleged attack
- Fire at Amazon data centre in UAE disrupts services
- Fire at a data centre reported to disrupt Ministry of Corporate Affairs services
- Multiple battery fires prompt full replacement at Chesterfield data centre
- Lithium-ion battery explosion causes data centre fire in Daejeon
- Fire damages ISRO data centre in Ahmedabad
- Fire damages two buildings at Bitdeer Massillon site
- Switchgear fire forces shutdown at Greenidge Generation Dresden facility
- Small fire in lead-acid batteries at a reported east London data centre
- Fire at STT Global Data Centres India facility in New Delhi
- Fire at Almere data centre causes power loss and outages
- Roof fire reported at Apple data centre site in Mesa, Arizona
- Small fire at May Street data centre disrupts internet in Belfast
- Lightning reported to disrupt Google data centre in Belgium
- Small fire at Delta data centre in Atlanta follows electrical failure
- Burning smell leads to evacuation and a small fire at a data centre in Watford
- Power failure disrupts Internet Archive data centre services
- Fire at Samsung data centre in Gwacheon causes global outage
- Fire at Ford World Headquarters Shuts Data Centre
- Fire on roof at Chicago data centre during generator test
- Fire reported at a Reliance Jio data centre during an India-wide network outage
- Fuel line burst sparks fire at San Antonio data centre
- Fire at data centre in Chai Chee sends one to hospital
- Fire in customer electrical equipment at Equinix SP4 data centre
- Fire at SBN AWS Building 104 in New Carlisle injures two workers
- Gas leak reported at QTS data centre site near Manassas
- Construction worker electrocuted at QTS data centre in Fayette County
- Fire at Telecom Egypt data centre kills four and injures 26
- UPS fire at Centron data centre in Hallstadt, Bamberg
- Fire at Lotte data centre in Daejeon linked to UPS battery
- Fire at Port Melbourne data centre disrupts UniSuper services
- Fire suppression fault closes Nordic Nasdaq for hours
- Fatal fire reported at an AWS data centre in Tokyo
- Fire at Digicel data centre power plant in Haiti
- Fatal smoke inhalation after server explosion at Cyber 1 data centre
- Small fire in power room at Equinix MD2 data centre
- Data centre fire reported to disrupt internet services in Iran
- Fire at Judiciary Data Center in the Supreme Court, Manila
- Roof fire at QTS data centre in Piscataway
- Arc flash injures three workers at Google data centre
- Electrical fire disrupts Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide
- Fire and flood disrupt Google Cloud at Paris data centre
- Reported backup power fire disrupts Zenith Bank data centre
- Fire at Proximus data centre disrupts emergency calls in Belgium
- OVHcloud data centre fire destroys SBG2 in Strasbourg
- Fire destroys data centres and internet gateways in Dhaka tower
- Fire at Windstream data center disrupts 911 services in Lincoln
- Power outage brings down British Airways data centre near Heathrow
- Electrical fire at power switch disrupts AT&T data centre
- Power outage at data centre postpones hospital surgeries in Oregon
- Smoke detection causes data centre power shutdown at Wells Fargo
- Power outage disrupts Nissan services from Denver data centre
- Power outage at Docklands IBX LD8 data centre in London
- Generator fire at WebNX data centre causes outage in Ogden
- Battery fire at SK C&C Pangyo data centre causes major service outage in South Korea
- Fire severely damages Maxnod data centre in Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
- Small explosion and battery fire during maintenance at data centre in Vitry-sur-Seine
- Explosion and multi-day fire at SIN11 Digital Loyang 1 data centre, Singapore
- Battery room fire at Digital Realty data centre in Hillsboro, Oregon
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