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<p class="MsoNormal">My reference to Halon was from nearly 30 years ago … as others have noted it’s mostly replaced by Argonite / FM200 which doesn’t kill you which may be why the inductions don’t focus on that so much anymore.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On water – if I recall correctly (it was 30 years ago) IBM was recommending back then that water was better than Halon (didn’t really damage the gear and didn’t kill the staff)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AusNOG <ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christopher Hawker<br/>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:22 AM<br/>
<b>To:</b> Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369@gmail.com>; ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] [AUSNog] : Re Data Centre Fire Suppression Safety<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt>We all will be safe in Equinix DCs, as they don’t use Halon:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt>“We use dry pipe fire suppression, which means there’s no water in the pipes until it’s needed to put out the fire. We think water is superior to using the firefighting chemical compound Halon, because water Is
less damaging to technology and Halon can destroy circuit cards.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt>Source: <a href="https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2014/03/26/we-must-protect-this-house-against-disaster/">https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2014/03/26/we-must-protect-this-house-against-disaster/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt>Can’t say the same for NextDC (M1 at the very least:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt>“This is because gas is a mixture of argon and nitrogen that suppresses fire by depleting oxygen in the the data hall.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=margin-left:36.0pt>Source: <a href="https://www.nextdc.com/blog/m1-argonite-fire-suppression-gas-cylinders">https://www.nextdc.com/blog/m1-argonite-fire-suppression-gas-cylinders</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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On 13 Dec 2018, at 10:53 am, Paul Wilkins <<a href="mailto:paulwilkins369@gmail.com">paulwilkins369@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Every data centre has a fire suppression system. We're not used to thinking of this as a hazardous environment, but consequent to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/antarctica-two-technicians-dead-mcmurdo-station-ross-island">
two techs being found dead working on a fire suppression system in Antarctica</a>, I find myself wondering yet again, why there aren't more stringent controls around the fire suppression systems in data centres: viz - when you enter a data centre, how confident
can you be you're not going to be quietly asphyxiated?<br/>
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