If our datacentres cannot take the heat, the UK could really go off the rails | John Naughton
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/23/if-our-datacentres-cannot-take-the-heat-the-uk-could-really-go-off-the-rails
It is understandable that railway infrastructure could not cope with last week’s temperatures, but why did Google and Oracle’s facilities go offline?
One of the unexpected delights of the heatwave was the sound of a Conservative transport secretary talking sense. Grant Shapps was on the Today programme on Tuesday morning explaining a basic principle of good engineering design: get the specifications right. When you’re creating a new piece of public infrastructure you need to be able to specify the constraints under which the design is expected to function.
If our datacentres cannot take the heat, the UK could really go off the rails | John Naughton
Jul 23, 2022, 3:32pm UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/23/if-our-datacentres-cannot-take-the-heat-the-uk-could-really-go-off-the-rails
> It is understandable that railway infrastructure could not cope with last week’s temperatures, but why did Google and Oracle’s facilities go offline?
> One of the unexpected delights of the heatwave was the sound of a Conservative transport secretary talking sense. Grant Shapps was on the Today programme on Tuesday morning explaining a basic principle of good engineering design: get the specifications right. When you’re creating a new piece of public infrastructure you need to be able to specify the constraints under which the design is expected to function.