Fires represent a serious financial threat to businesses. Datacenter fires could significantly disrupt communications service and ultimately slash revenues, and effect immeasurable negative impact on consumer confidence in your service.
Due to the concentration of equipment and data in a datacenter, the degree of potential damage that could occur from both a fire and conventional fire-extinguishing systems is unacceptable.
For instance, on March 10, 2021, a fire broke out in a room in one of our 4 datacenters in Strasbourg, SBG2. Firefighters immediately intervened to prevent the spread of the fire by using, as usual, a lot of water… As a result, the fire destroyed OVH’s SBG2 data center completely and four rooms in SBG1, according to an incident report on the company’s website. UPS was down in the SBG3 facility as well
