Data Center Fire Cripples South Korea’s E-Government System
Lithium ion batteries continue to be a major fire risk:
Burned lithium-ion batteries sit in a water tank after a fire at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon. Friday’s blaze in an uninterruptible power supply room at the government data center disrupted hundreds of public services. Yonhap
Hundreds of government and financial services across Korea remain offline after a fire at a key national data center, disrupting citizens’ daily routines and causing frustration. Officials warned it could take up to two weeks before operations return to normal, affecting everything from housing applications to moving contracts.
The blaze broke out Friday evening at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) headquarters in Daejeon, the “nerve center” of Korea’s e-government infrastructure. Officials said 13 workers had been replacing lithium-ion batteries when sparks from one battery are believed to have ignited the fire, which spread across the fifth-floor server room. About 100 people evacuated safely, and one worker suffered minor burns. Firefighters brought the fire under control after 10 hours, but it took nearly 22 hours to completely extinguish it.
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Totally preventable. For critical operations, never use Chinesium.
Why have the battery farm in the same building as your server stacks and “cloud” storage? Maybe they should look into a DRUPS. What is a DRUPS, glad you asked: “DRUPS” (or “drup” for short) refers to a Diesel Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply system, which provides continuous, uninterrupted power to critical loads by combining a diesel generator with a rotary UPS that uses a flywheel for energy storage, eliminating the need for batteries and offering higher reliability and lower long-term costs for mission-critical applications
Oh, and remember having info in the cloud just means your info is stored on someone elses computers.
“Oh, and remember having info in the cloud just means your info is stored on someone elses computers.”
Please attribute all my quotes, even when you paraphrase.
Flyingsword, none of this would have happened if Korea didn’t use their own servers and just did all this on the cloud.
(That’s a recursive cloud joke)
It’s clouds all the way down.