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southern MN | Was looking through Yahoo news at some of the problems from Sandy. They talked about keeping the internet & servers up during such an event.
Whole article is here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/floodwaters-rise-sites-may-fall-10260...
Couple points at the end were interesting. They can run through 90,000 gallons of diesel in 3 days? They have a 90,000 gallon tank of diesel sitting around? There is a generator that big, and servers take that much energy? Mis-type, or what? And, It's probably not wise to put your 2 backup generators, one in the basement where it floods, and one on the 19th floor with no fuel system in place....
--->Paul
Quotes:
Providers of critical Internet services to business in the area will be set back until full power is restored. A large building on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, owned by Google which houses several other service providers as well, was relying on a 90,000-gallon tank of diesel fuel to run emergency operations, according to one of the building’s tenants.
“We’re good for about 72 hours at a full load of customers,” said Ron Sterbenz, vice president for marketing at Telx, which maintains data services for financial companies and communications providers from the facility. “We don’t know when the power will be back up.” Google would not comment on its building’s operations.
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Another downtown building, at 75 Broad Street, had one generator in the basement, which was damaged by water. There is another generator, but it is on a higher floor.
“We’re on a very limited amount of fuel,” said Mr. Miggins of Peer 1, which maintains computers there. “We’ve got a truck full of diesel pulled up to the building, and now we’re trying to figure out how to get fuel up to the 19th floor.”
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prepared for disaster?
