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As France continues to face a heat wave, a Paris-area Equinix data centre has suffered a cooling outage, leaving some customer services offline for hours. Equinix used backup cooling units to cool the facility and regain control of the second floor of its Paris 2 IBX data centre in St. Denis, France.

“Multiple chillers that support the second floor failed, and the standby chiller system did not start in time to absorb the load,” Equinix France general manager Michel Brignano explained in a report posted to the FrNOG Internet community forum. “This impacted temperatures on the second floor and had indirect effect on the ground floor as well.”

Source: The WHIR

A major central London data centre owned by Level 3 overheated in Sunday’s sunshine, taking down major websites including the popular music service Last.fm. Temperatures at the facility in Braham Street in the City topped 50°C at 7pm, after one of five chillers failed in the afternoon heat. According to data recorded at City Airport, the outside temperature peaked yesterday at about 23°C.

The other chillers were uable to bear the extra strain and the temperature rose uncontrollably. Servers shut down to cool and were gradually brought back online after about four hours. Level 3 said today that engineers were still working to repair the faulty chiller, but added that the other four were now able to maintain a working temperature. It said it had informed customers of the problems.

Source: The Register