Cloud Computing: Amazon data center on fire in Virginia
January 10, 2015
Grazed from Click2Houston. Author: Editorial Staff.
A large fire lit up the roof of an Amazon data center that’s still under construction in a Virginia suburb outside Washington, D.C. No one was hurt in the blaze, according to the local fire department, which was able to put out the fire in under an hour. Amazon said the facility was in the early stages of becoming an Amazon Web Services cloud computing center.
The company noted that the incident didn’t impact company production or shipping. The nondescript building will one day be one of Amazon’s massive data centers — the kind that keep websites running and store computer information for companies…
Passersby on the nearby highway snapped photos, which showed a large plume of thick, black smoke that rose hundreds of feet into the air…
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