Google and Oracle data centers are melting in the UK heat wave
https://www.protocol.com/amp/google-oracle-cloud-uk-heat-2657695722 How come AWS servers survived this heatwave? #tech
Hardware PIP
Did you even read the article before posting here? SMH It clearly mentions that the Amazon London datacenter too had an outage early on July 10th.
But it was not as bad as GCP
Is this going to be a question in system design rounds now?
“okay what if your failover databases melt in the heat in the summer?”
I'd say throw on some water packets
No wonder some of my eu related Google search queries are slow.
Google data centers run more aggressive passive cooling strategies. They have AI based harnesses that allow their servers to run substantially hotter than AWS/Azure and in turn use less electricity. There is a known limitation that the only reason they don't normally run hotter is to allow techs to actually be near them. In a heat wave, it would appear that the passive heating strategy isn't quite adequate in some cases.
AWS is not transparent and shifted workloads to different regions🧐
AWS data centers runs on ICE, not electricity. This is Amazon's innovation.