Facebook Suffers Actual Cloud In Oregon Datacenter

An anonymous reader writes "The Register carries the funniest, most topical IT story of the year: 'Facebook's first data center ran into problems of a distinctly ironic nature when a literal cloud formed in the IT room and started to rain on servers. Though Facebook has previously hinted at this via references to a 'humidity event' within its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, the social network's infrastructure king Jay Parikh told The Reg on Thursday that, for a few minutes in Summer, 2011, Facebook's data center contained two clouds: one powered the social network, the other poured water on it.'"

Obligatory

[identity0]

Welcome to Oregon, it rains a lot.

Streamed Hams

[Anonymous Coward]

Superintendant Chalmers: A rain storm? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your datacentre?

Re:Obligitory

[Anonymous Coward]

And nothing of value was lost.

Various US intelligence agencies and their chums in other countries beg to differ.

It's clouds

[rastos1]

It's clouds all the way ... up?

Load balancing

[gmuslera]

Both clouds were leaking and pissing off users. Facebook must have real sysadmins [xkcd.com].