A fire crashed On Thursday morning, in the Data Center in Hillsboro, Oregon hired by X Elona Musk, forcing an extended response from rescue crews, according to many sources that talked to Wired. Sources required anonymity because they are authorized to speak publicly about the company.
Firefighters came to Hillsboro Technology Park, in the suburbs west of Portland, at 10:21, according to spokesman Hillsboro Fire and Rescue Piseth Pich. They found a room with batteries that were considered to be involved in fire. Pich noticed that the fire did not spread to other parts of the building, but said that he was tough in the room with smoke. At the time of writing, the crew was still on stage.
X did not answer immediately at the request for comment from Wired. You can’t find out if the incident influenced the server operations in the data center.
Before Elon Musk bought X, the company had three data centers in Sacramento, Portland and Atlanta. This assured that if one data center drops, traffic can be moved to the other two “and divided, so no single data center has been overwhelmed.
In relation to Christmas Eve 2022, Musk closed the X data center in Sacramento, trying to reduce costs. The company has experienced a serious failure after closing. According to internal documents, over the next six months, the company moved over 2,573 server racks from data centers to data centers in Portland and Atlanta. In the Portland X region, it seems to rent a space from a building that has been associated with Digital Realty, one of the largest data centers programmers in the world. Digital Realty provides various levels of operational support in their places that may have one or more tenants. It is not clear whether X shares this object with other companies. Digital Realty did not immediately answer to the request for comment.
The batteries often act as a spare power source in data centers. But lithium-ion varieties can be unstable, and problems with maintenance and inappropriate safety measures They contributed costly burning in data centers around the world. Pich, a spokesman for the fire brigade of Hillsboro, says that he could not remember any previous fire involving the battery in many other data centers in the Oregon region.
XAI, Mother company X, Criticism in recent months for a quick power extension in the fresh data center in Memphis, which was opened last year. This object, which Musk called Colossus, was built at a breakthrough speed to train Grov XAI and other AI tools. The company has installed over 30 gas turbines driven by methane, but because the turbines are transient, federal permission to control pollution is not required, which seems to exploit the gap in the pristine air act. The facility caused widespread criticism from the surrounding black and brown communities, which are already exposed to a gigantic amount of air pollution and industrial emissions from other facilities in this area.