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By dotCore
via wired.com
Submitted: Feb 20 2013 / 01:13

Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.
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