too hot!Google and Oracle's data centers in the UK "down"

Jimu Journalist Song Qingying

Intern Yang Xingnan

Britain has experienced the extreme high temperature of two days. The two major technology giants of Google and Oracle, located in London's data center cooling system, had problems and failed operation.

Technology Company Data Center (Picture Source: BBC)

According to BBC, on July 19th local time, the temperature in the UK was as high as 42 ° C, and the temperature in southern Britain, including London, soared.

Oracle is the largest enterprise -level software company in the United States, and London has its data center. Oracle reported on the afternoon of the day that the two cooling systems in the data center failed, resulting in the higher and higher temperature of the data center. Some systems automatically adopted protection measures to close operations, so that some users' data use was delayed. It was not until 10:00 on the 20th that the company said that the problem had been resolved.

The Google Cloud Data Center in London also failed due to high temperature. On the evening of the 19th, Google issued a report that the cooling system in the building failed. In order to prevent the machine from being damaged, Google closed some machines in the data center and did not recover until the next morning. Google said that only a small number of users were affected.

British extreme high -temperature weather (picture source: BBC)

It is reported that the data center is generally located in a highly secure building, with a large number of computers inside, and supports many online services. However, a large number of computers running will produce huge heat. At this time, the cooling system is essential. Therefore, the data center generally has a strong cooling ability.

Paul, a person in charge of the data center in London, said that the data center took into account the problem of high temperature at the beginning of the design, but the current extreme high temperature weather has far exceeded the expectations of many data center operators at the beginning of the design. He revealed that at high temperature on the 19th, he enabled the previously formulated disaster recovery plan.

The BBC said that the cooling system is indeed crucial to the data center, but too much use of the cooling system can cause more carbon dioxide, so it is getting hotter.

Microsoft Underwater Data Center (Picture Source: BBC)

Climate scientists say that extreme high temperature weather will become more and more frequent in the UK, and technology companies are currently exploring green, low -carbon, and energy -saving cooling systems and computer systems. For example, Microsoft tested underwater data centers in 2020 to achieve natural cooling through seawater.

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