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Dangerous server rooms (extracts from 'www.TheRegister.co.uk')

Do you have any pictures similar to these - then its time to call RHAirconditioning - (send them to us for inclusion in the photo gallary)

My company's "server" room was basically a 5' x 10' room with a dozen PCs on a metal bookshelf. The building had no air conditioning, and the room had no windows, so we placed a standalone portable AC unit in the room. The water emptied into a large Tupperware container ('the slop bucket') that needed to be emptied every day when the weather was humid. On more than one occasion, water was splashed on the front of the bottom-shelf PCs during this operation."

"Inevitably, one weekend it was humid and no one came in to empty the slop bucket. It overflowed, and on Monday morning we found a small puddle on the server room floor. The water had pooled around the extension cord that powered several of the servers...right at
the point where the UPS plugged into it.
Surprisingly, nothing had burst into flame, or even shorted out, and everything was working perfectly. We risked life and limb pulling the extension cord wiire out of the water, dried it off, hung it on the wall, and emptied the bucket.

Since then, we've had central air conditioning installed."

 

A reader , who shell remain nameless, sends us the following photograph of his company's IT nerve center.

"I thought you might like to see our company's server room," he writes.

"Those two big buckets are to catch the water from the air conditioner. Notice they balance right above our company servers. good design?"

Well, if you have a water cooled computer that's OK. The temperature rises, the air conditioner activates, and gallons of cooling water are dispersed onto the overheating PCs below.

On the other hand, given the lack of regulations on water egress, and the utter absence of water cooled PCs, it probably isn't.