There has been an explosion due to a short circuit at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, America. According to the information from Reuters, 3 staff have been seriously injured in this accident. All have been sent to the hospital.
The Council Bluffs Police Department told Reuters the incident happened at 11:59 a.m. local time on Monday. Three electricians were working at a substation close to the data center buildings when an arc flash (an electric explosion) occurred, causing serious burns to all three electricians.
According to the report, one person was taken by helicopter to Nebraska Medical Center, while two others were taken to the hospital by ambulance. The Nebraska Medical Center is a short distance from Council Bluffs, which sits on the Iowa-Nebraska border. According to the Council Bluffs Police Department, when they were taken for a medical emergency, all three people were conscious and breathing. Right now his latest health update is awaited.
Where are Google’s data centers?
A huge secret campus of huge drives, shelves of computers, internal and external network facilities, cooling systems, and a variety of software appears in the form of a Google data center. These data centers have been built by Google in many places around the world. In North America, there is a Google Center in Berkeley County, Council Bluffs, Douglas County, Jackson County, Lenoir, Montgomery County, Mays County, Dallas, Henderson, and Reno.
Apart from this, a data center has been built in Colonia Nicolich of Uruguay, two in Quilicura and Cerrillos in Chile in South America. Google also has data centers in Europe’s St. Gislain in Belgium, Hamina in Finland, Dublin in Ireland, Imshaven and Airport in the Netherlands, Fredericia in Denmark, Zurich in Switzerland, and Warsaw in Poland.
If we talk about Asia, then there is a Google data center in Jurong West of Singapore, Changhua County of Taiwan, Tainan City, Yunlin County, and also in Mumbai, India. Although there is no official data on the total number of servers in Google data centers, a report that came out four years ago suggested that Google had 2.5 million servers then.
