Servers are peculiar objects. They can sit there and do millions of calculations and operations per second, for months and months and months on end.  They will dutifully perform their tasks until they are interupted by some stupid user asking it to do something it doesn’t want to do. Until the power goes out due to a few inches of freshly fallen snow. The power outage should be no big deal, right? Datacenters are the most equipped buildings known to man that are able to deal with mother nature and her wicked ways, right? Sure. Datacenters have backup generators to keep all of the machines and power on and running flawlessly while the electricians work to restore power. What happens when a water main bursts and floods the room where the backup generator is and main circuitboards, causing the entire building to lose power?
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