Me too. Even the 20KV line on my street does not throw that far. My suspicion is that the observer was too busy avoiding death to make accurate observation. Meter long jets of flame out the vents of boxes makes some sense.
As expected. Price breaker pulling tricks to do stuff cheaper. Besides the missing standard fire extinguishing system also the lack of an "electrical cutoff system". Wow. That is all suspicious as it is covered by law in the EU, contracts/SLA's with the customer and contracts with the insurance company. In the simplest case it are fuses but generally it are motor/spring controlled switches with monitoring/protection modules. The basics of electrical distribution....
Recently I visited such a price breaker datacenter that had no automatic fire extinguishing system nor was a VESDA system available. If one asks and gets the tour (always do this, it says more than nice powerpoint presentations) and watches carefully one sees a lot of other errors and wrong choices. I would not want to be customer in such a place.
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