The Sparky Incident
The Friday before Memorial Day, in 2002, I blew up the data center. It happened when I lit the PDUs for a new row of equipment that I had spent a week racking and cabling. A 110v power strip didn’t like the 220v I was giving it. The surge filled the room with a haze of smoke. The distinctive smell of fried capacitors and the sound of menacing alarms filled the room. In an instant, the entire enterprise was down….