A fire destroyed SBG2 and part of SBG1 data centers in Strasbourg, France. The facilities are part of a data center campus owned by OVH Cloud, a French cloud computing company. The fire destroyed completely destroyed SBG2 and 4 rooms out of 12 in the adjacent SBG1 data center. At this time, it is unknown what started the fire.
Although OVH designates them as separate buildings they are all adjacent to each other as seen photo below.
OVH founder and chairman Octave Klaba said on Twitter, “Fire destroyed SBG2. A part of SBG1 is destroyed. Firefighters are protecting SBG3. No impact SBG4,” “We don’t have access to the site. That is why SBG1, SBG3, SBG4 won’t be restarted today,” he added.
The Strasbourg site is one of OVHcloud’s 17 data centres in France, out of 32 globally.
The timing is particularly bad for OVH. The company started the process for an IPO two days earlier on March 8th. Founded in 1999, OVHcloud is the biggest European-based cloud services provider, competing against US giants Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud.
OVH Fire
Credit: Bas-Rhin SDIS
credit: Bas-Rhin SDIS
Credit: Bas-Rhin SDIS
OVH Strasbourg Campus
is located at 9 Rue du Bassin de l'Industrie, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
SBG-2 Facility
Posted in OVH SBG2
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SBG 3
Posted in OVH SBG3
Source: OVH
SBG3 under-construction in 2017
Posted in OVH SBG3
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Two of the ten generators of the SBG3 datacenter of 1250 kVA each, with an autonomy of 48 hours at full load
Posted in OVH SBG3
Source: OVH
Rendering of the OVH SBG Campus in Strasbourg
Source: OVH
OVH Strasbourg Campus showing all 3 Buildings (2019)
Source: Baxtel
Dramatic night photo of SBG2 burning
Source: Bas-Rhin SDIS
Smoldering aftermath of the March 2021 fire the destroyed SBG2
