California temperature is as high as 45 degrees Celsius, Twitter Data Center stops

Jimu Journalist Li Manying

According to a comprehensive report of CNN and the Los Angeles Times, on September 5, local time, the center of Sacraono, California, USA reached 45 ° C. On the same day, a leaked email inside Twitter showed that there was a failure of Twitter data centers in Sacraono.

The server needs to keep cool to run normally (Picture Source: Shutterstock website)

Twitter Data Center stopped due to high temperature

"On September 5th, due to extreme weather, Twitter's Sacraono Data Center had a failure." According to CNN, Kelly, the vice president of the project of Twitter's company, wrote in the internal news to Twitter. This time the fault , Resulting in the physical equipment of the Sacramento data center completely closed.

It is understood that at present, the failure of the data center does not affect website users, but it makes Twitter more vulnerable to attack because its backup data storage is offline. However, this failure highlights the increasingly worrying vulnerability of technology companies in extreme climate, that is, the server needs to keep cool to run normally, and maintaining temperature is a high price challenge, especially when they are located in the Central Valley of the Central Valley of California. When the weather is hot.

Other technology giants have also experienced similar faults

According to the Los Angeles Times, in addition to Twitter, other technology giants have recently experienced similar interruptions. In the heat wave earlier this year, Oracle and Google's servers have failed.

On September 6, local time, California, USA, experienced the worst heat waves. Weather forecast shows that the entire California and western United States set a series of highest temperature records that day. Among them, the center of Sacraono reached 47 ° C, breaking the historical record of 45 ° C set in 1925; Stockon has reached 46 ° C, which tied the city's highest historical record; Essence Accompanied by the waves is the test of the California power system.

Although the electricity of California has been barely maintained, Twitter's server has not recovered. According to news media reports, although Twitter has data centers in multiple locations in the United States, including Eciad Atlanta and Portland, Oregon, these centers can store duplicate data to avoid data loss and interruption of the entire site. However, Kelly still warned that the Sacramento data center was paralyzed, causing Twitter to be in a "non -redundant state". If other data centers were lost, they would not be able to provide traffic for all Twitter users.

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