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zihotki
Short summary: The building did not have an electrical cutoff mechanism, it lacked an automatic fire extinguisher system, it had wooden ceiling, and two inner courtyards acted as chimneys.
dopamean
Sounds like the worst possible setup if you want to avoid a catastrophic loss due to fire.
DANmode
Or...the BEST possible setup if you don't mind the opposite.

How did they make out with their insurance?

zx8080
It would be interesting to know the DC project author/company name.
wut42
OVHCloud builds their own DCs.
zx8080
If physical security (against fire, in this case) in their DCs is clearly not good, then how safe is data?
wut42
There's a reason that OVH is usually seen as a trash, low quality provider. :)
dspillett
> more than 140 customers filed a class-action lawsuit, seeking damages for losses.

I wonder how many of those suing OVH (presumably for lacking due diligence in the DC design) have paid out to their customers for lacking the due diligence to have properly engineered & tested DR plans (off-provider backups etc.).

jraph
With this event and the recent Global Switch / Google Cloud datacenter fire in Paris, we, the French, hope we now have proven our experience in burning datacenters enough. Feel free to reach us if you ever need to burn some datacenters inadvertently, we'll happy to give a hand. We can help by leveraging our unmatched knowledge in advanced technologies and materials like water sourced from clouds.