The Strasbourg firefighters intervened on Friday evening on the OVHCloud site after a release of smoke in a room where batteries were stored, we learned from the company, nine days after a fire at the same place. Two security personnel were slightly inconvenienced by the fumes and underwent medical tests, the company said, confirming information from the Latest News from Alsace.
This new disaster will not, according to OVHCloud, « no additional disturbance » for its customers because the servers had not yet returned to service. The site, which hosted four data centers, was affected by a major fire on March 10, which completely destroyed the “SBG2” data center and damaged the neighboring “SBG1”.
This time, the firefighters were called around 7:00 p.m. to intervene in a room containing batteries, in the “SBG1” data center, where smoke was released, a spokesperson for the AFP told AFP. ‘business. « Smoke has billed from an unused room in the SBG1 data center », also tweeted this Friday evening the founder of the company, Octave Klaba.
Smoke from batteries
The fumes have come ” unused batteries » and « not supplied with electricity », said Octave Klaba. « We didn’t have the fire but we had a lot of smoke », said the entrepreneur, ensuring that the situation was « under control » and ” everyone safe “. The firefighters, intervened very quickly, controlled this release of smoke, said the company, adding that a decision had also been taken to cancel service restoration operations which were to be carried out during the night. The Latest from Alsace states that the origin of the fire is ” for the indefinite time ».
After last week’s fire, hundreds of thousands of customers of the company, the European leader in “cloud” services, were faced with difficulties in accessing their websites and courier services. OVHcloud, founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba is a flagship of French tech and one of the few European providers of “cloud” services, a sector dominated by American and Chinese players.
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