[24513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WEATHER: rolling blackouts along the East Coast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Foster)
Wed Jul 7 01:28:51 1999
From: Dan Foster <dsf@frontiernet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96A.990707010805.277366A-100000@everest.cs.umbc.edu> from Gregory Urban at "Jul 7, 99 01:15:26 am"
To: urban@cs.umbc.edu (Gregory Urban)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:27:40 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, nanog@merit.edu, dsf@frontiernet.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Gregory Urban was rumored to have said..
>
> Let's not forget that a/c units in data centers, NOC's, and customer
> service call centers have been running 24x7 as the night time temperatures
> have not dropped below 80 in many cities on the east cost for days (it's
> over 90 in DC at 1:00am). Units in commercial office buildings
> have shut down, and repair times are not good. The consequences of a
> failure are more obvious than the solutions for those running off of
> building a/c units and/or smaller individual a/c systems.
Hmm. Those folks might be better served by studying data center environments
in the South or Southwest - ie Phoenix, Dallas, etc. Those folks generally
don't seem to be unduly alarmed by operational impact since they've planned
for it one way or another from day one, AFAIK.
As a side note, I got hit by brief blackouts in my building that affected
equipment not in the computer room (ie workstations; computer room on an
industrial strength UPS - and I don't mean APS units :) ) yesterday - not
sure, but suspect had to do with the rolling blackouts(?).
As for the air conditioning units...good point.
-Dan
