Massive power outage proves no match for AIS’ Lightwave Data Center
Last week, San Diego and much of Southern California was suddenly plunged into a major blackout, apparently when an Arizona maintenance worker removed a monitoring device from a transmission line.
Millions of citizens and businesses were without power for anywhere from about 12 hours to nearly 3 days. While residents sweltered in 115-degree heat, energy engineers and technicians rushed to troubleshoot and reverse the outage.
Meanwhile, one of our data center clients, American Internet Services (AIS), powered right through the entire blackout on their own self-generated power. AIS operates seven premium data centers in California and Arizona, with over 200,000 square feet of raised floor data center space in their five San Diego facilities alone.
AIS provides secure server banks for cloud-based storage and handling of critical data. Like us, they serve clients who absolutely positively CANNOT afford any loss of power or sensitive data.
That’s why AIS invests so heavily in state-of-the-art equipment and technology: to ensure their centers offer superior power reliability, bandwidth, security and redundancy. Brown Engineers is currently spearheading development of a Stabilization Plan to help AIS further expand and harden their facilities.
We salute AIS President Tim Caulfield and Ken Carter, Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure, for their commitment to ongoing improvement and modernization of their “data fortresses.”
