Tech

One of NASA’s top data centers taken offline by flood

Share
Share


  • One of the data centers NASA uses got damaged by a burst pipe
  • Experts are still assessing the extent of the damage
  • Stanford has described the outage as “severe”

A number of NASA’s projects, such as its Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission, are facing major disruptions after the data center they rely on recently got damaged by water, leading to a serious outage.

Stanford’s Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) confirmed that a burst water pipe severely damaged the data center’s servers, and a resolution could be a long way away.

Share

Leave a comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Articles
Singapore turns skyscraper into a 250-million pixel canvas with projections that broke three world records
Tech

Singapore turns skyscraper into a 250-million pixel canvas with projections that broke three world records

Singapore’s skyline becomes a glowing canvas celebrating both national history and brand...

AMD’s budget server CPU just destroyed its old flagship, almost 3X faster and shockingly efficient
Tech

AMD’s budget server CPU just destroyed its old flagship, almost 3X faster and shockingly efficient

Benchmarks show AMD’s new EPYC 4005 series outperforming older eight-channel EPYC 7601...

This rugged Samsung tablet offers 8 years of Android updates and dual hot-swappable batteries
Tech

This rugged Samsung tablet offers 8 years of Android updates and dual hot-swappable batteries

Samsung’s rugged tablet built for frontline industries has dual batteries and 5G...