A photo of Microsoft's AMS06 datacenter in Middenmeer, the Netherlands. The photo shows the emergency generators with their chimneys, there to power the center in case of electricity outtage.

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1. l03s (l03s@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Mar-2022 23:46:53 UTC l03s

   Yesterday, during a bike ride to the picturesque Microsoft hyperscale datacenter in Middenmeer (NL), I learned that Microsoft and Google store over 2 million liters of Diesel there, of which half is burned during monthly and yearly tests of their emergency generator. I suppose this is commonly known, their way to reach 99,999 percent availability, I just never pictured datacenters having *that* many chimneys... Biking past them also lets the hyper-ness of their scale sink in 😱