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by bzzzt 1925 days ago
I've been led around a DC in the Netherlands where they used a separate room for the UPS batteries. Not only because of safety but because the reliability of small rack-mount UPSes really sucks (and you have to match them to the power draw of the servers in the rack or pay for a lot of unused capacity)

All racks and servers were connected to dual power feeds, so even when one of the feeds goes down the servers should run fine.

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We do exactly the same you describe here in Latvia.