[118998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HE.net, Fremont-2 outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Tue Nov 3 23:04:00 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: stef@memberwebs.com
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:03:06 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <4AF0F615.9010202@memberwebs.com> from "Stef Walter" at Nov 03,
2009 09:33:41 PM
Cc: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> > FWIW: http://www.he.net/releases/release18.html
>
> No date on that 'press release' but the way back machine helps put it
> somewhere in 2002. A lot of good this "Alameda" sized generator has done
> recently...
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.he.net/releases/release18.html
2MW isn't super huge or anything. I would expect that, given the size
I have been led to believe HE is, they've got a lot more than that now.
My memory is that Alameda isn't huge, but it isn't small either. I'm
not sure .. ah, here
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS179594+03-Apr-2009+BW20090403
peak 70MW
I'm not sure what the basis for the claim is that a 2MW generator is
"large enough to power the entire city of Alameda" ... 2MW gensets are
common enough in this business and it's possible to burn through 2MW in
a few hundred racks. It isn't *that* much power.
A more conventional comparison might be to something like a hospital; one
of our local hospitals installed a 1.25MW generator which, IIRC, powers
all critical circuits.
http://hhenergyservices.com/electrical/photos.php?category_id=2845&subcategory_id=5027&id=196&number=7
Sometimes it is easier to picture things that way.
... JG
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