Following a fire at Alibaba Cloud’s data center in Singapore, a fire broke out again at the Alibaba Cloud data center in Heyuan, Guangdong, causing concern among users of Flower Borrow and Borrow Borrow.
On December 9, a netizen posted a video claiming that a fire had occurred at the Alibaba Cloud database in the Heyuan urban area of Guangdong, with flames raging and thick smoke billowing.
The video uploader stated that the fire occurred on the afternoon of the 9th, and hundreds of people evacuated the area.
According to a journalist from Jiangxi TV’s “Urban Scene” program who contacted the Heyuan Urban Area Committee Propaganda Department in Guangdong, staff from the department confirmed the incident, stating that the fire broke out in the jurisdiction of Yuannan Town on the afternoon of the 9th around 3 p.m. The fire has been extinguished, and there were no casualties at the scene.
An article on NetEase quoted comments from netizens questioning whether Flower Borrow and Borrow Borrow would still need to be repaid if the database caught fire. Will this incident have an impact on Flower Borrow and Borrow Borrow? Were any relevant data destroyed in the fire?
Public records show that Alibaba’s Guangdong Cloud Computing Data Center in Heyuan has a total investment of 15 billion yuan, and it is planned to build three major data parks in the Yuannan Town, Jiangdong New District, and High-tech Zone in Heyuan. The project is expected to be completed in 2028.
Among them, the High-tech Zone project covers an area of about 120,000 square meters, with construction commencing in June 2018 and topping out at the end of November the same year. On February 18, 2020, the Heyuan data center officially began providing services to the public.
Coincidentally, according to news from the China Energy Network News Center, on September 10 this year, a fire broke out at Alibaba Cloud’s Availability Zone C data center in Singapore, causing severe disruptions to services hosted by major tech companies including Lazada and ByteDance. Alibaba Cloud issued a statement confirming that the incident was caused by a fire resulting from the explosion of lithium batteries in the data center.