[brmgb]

> The publicity damage alone will be on par with (if not bigger) their replacement costs. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rebrand.

Honest question: which publicity damage?

A fire in a datacenter is very much part of the things you should expect to see happen when you operate a large number of datacenters and will obviously cause some disruption to your customers hosting physical servers there.

Provided the disruption doesn't significantly extend to their cloud customers and doesn't affect people paying for guaranteed availability (which it shouldn't - OVH operates datacenters throughout the world), this seems to me to be an unfortunate incident but not a business threatening one.

[marcinzm]

Most people I feel would expect fire suppression to kick in and prevent the whole data center (and the adjacent ones) from catching on fire. The fact that it didn't is concerning regarding their operations since they build their own custom data centers. The fire isn't the issue, how much damage it did is the issue. So one can ask if there was there a systematic set of planning mistakes of which this is just the first to surface?