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Telling tales of data center horrors this Halloween

October 31 is coming up soon, so it’s time for costume parties, haunted houses, and your favorite scary movies. Halloween stories are frighteningly fun during parties or wrapped up in a blanket at home—we all love a good Dracula or Frankenstein tale!

In the spirit of Halloween, we may tell stories of things going “bump” in the night, but nothing’s as terrifying to tech pros as things that go bump in the data center.

To celebrate Halloween this year, we want to know your scariest, most goosebump-inducing data center fears and anecdotes that not only scare you this season, but year-round. Did you have a mishap with a chiller, HVAC, generator, or branch circuit? Or did something outside the data center affect your ability to conduct business as usual?

Tell us your scary stories and how you fought against these spooky tales by Friday, October 11 and we’ll put 250 THWACK points in your account.

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  • I work for a manufacturer. Their HQ (including most of the IT staff, oh, and a small data center) is in the same building as their main manufacturing facility. We've had the occasional fire situation out in the plant that forces us out of the building but thankfully nothing that has turned the fire suppression system on. This setup often lends itself to dirty power and power fluctuations, but for the most part it's all kept under check. We'll have brown-outs in parts of the building, but the data center is kept up on generators, thankfully.

    However, for a few days in the summer every year the plant gets shut down for cleaning and maintenance. So all of those big machines that draw a ton of power are no longer on, leaving the power to flow elsewhere. This tends to end up in our data center, at the chillers... overloading one or both, causing the temperature to rise... evidently the equipment in the data center doesn't like that, we've discovered.

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  • I work for a manufacturer. Their HQ (including most of the IT staff, oh, and a small data center) is in the same building as their main manufacturing facility. We've had the occasional fire situation out in the plant that forces us out of the building but thankfully nothing that has turned the fire suppression system on. This setup often lends itself to dirty power and power fluctuations, but for the most part it's all kept under check. We'll have brown-outs in parts of the building, but the data center is kept up on generators, thankfully.

    However, for a few days in the summer every year the plant gets shut down for cleaning and maintenance. So all of those big machines that draw a ton of power are no longer on, leaving the power to flow elsewhere. This tends to end up in our data center, at the chillers... overloading one or both, causing the temperature to rise... evidently the equipment in the data center doesn't like that, we've discovered.

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