This isn’t the first data center flood covered here at Internetblog, but most certainly the worst. In the video above, you can watch as several feet of water rush into Vodafone’s Istanbul data center and destroy thousands of pounds worth of server hardware and data.
Immediately after the flood, Vodafone subscribers experienced technical difficulties that lasted 24-48 hours, but no outages were reported. Large tech companies almost always have a system in place where if one data center goes out, the computing load is automatically rerouted to another facility. Needless to say, hopefully the company kept good backups.