[Titan2189]

Surely there must be something that's missing in translation? This feels like it simply can't be right.

[layer8]

It’s accurate: https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS...

[mrbluecoat]

I agree. No automated fire suppression system for critical infrastructure with no backup?

[fredoralive]

That may not be a perfect answer. One issue with fire suppression systems and spinning rust drives is that the pressure change etc. from the system can also ‘suppress’ the glass platters in drives as well.

[BonoboIO]

At first you think what an incompetent government would do such things, but even OVH pretty much did the same a few years ago. Destroyed some companies in the progress. A wooden floor in a datacenter with backups in the same building …

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-fire-rep...

[rini17]

Battery fire is impossible to suppress.

[nextworddev]

Because it was arson, not an accident

[pengaru]

Arson? Sounds increasingly like espionage.