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Following a major outage caused by a data center fire, South Korea cracks down on data center operations.

A fire at the SK C&C data center in Pangyo South Korea caused a shutdown of services South Koreans depend on.

Three major data center fires in as many years: This time, tragedy strikes data center operations in South Korea.

Koreas two major tech giants - Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. - suffered a service malfunction on Saturday due to a fire at a data center, officials said. The blaze broke out at around 3:33 p.m. at the building of SK CC located in Pangyo, just south of Seoul, they said. The building also houses the data centers for Naver and Kakao. No casualty was reported and the fire was limited to an electric room, an SK CC official said. The power was cut off at the data center for safety reasons and will be re...

News of yet another data center fire in just two years hits Google. Here’s how to make sure you’re not next.

An update on Google’s data center fire incident and ways to handle data center fire mitigation.

News of yet another data center fire in just two years hits Google. Here’s how to make sure you’re not next.

Generator Catches Fire, Causes Lengthy Data Center Outage at WebNX The exterior of ther WebNX data center in Ogden, Utah. (Image: Google Maps) An emergency generator caught fire at a data center in Ogden, Utah over the Easter weekend, causing the full shutdown of the data center and lengthy outages for customers. The incident at a WebNX facility comes a month after a more serious fire that destroyed an entire OVH data center in Strasbourg, France. Dedicated server hosting firm WebNX says a back...

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