On September 10th, Alibaba Cloud officially released a notice titled "Fire in Singapore Availability Zone C Data Center," stating that Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected abnormal network access in Singapore's geographic area, Availability Zone C. The cause of the anomaly was a lithium battery explosion in the Singapore data center, leading to a fire due to temperature rise. The fire has been ongoing for over 36 hours, causing network abnormalities in cloud computing services in the region and severe service disruptions for major technology companies such as Lazada and ByteDance, which host their services there. As of the afternoon of the 11th, there has been no news that the fire has been completely extinguished.

According to reports from 8 World News, the situation on the scene was very tense, with multiple fire trucks parked outside the data center and several police officers responsible for maintaining order. Civil defense personnel were on the scene for emergency handling. Before the incident, some people heard an explosion, and the data center subsequently emitted billowing smoke, with a pungent smell of burnt materials detectable at the scene. As of 8:10 PM, numerous civil defense personnel in protective gear were still entering the scene, with smoke still lingering and firefighting efforts ongoing. However, it is true that a fire at a data center can affect the servers of several companies.

Currently, the cause of the fire in the machine room and the progress of the incident have been disclosed. Alibaba Cloud's official statement points out that some cloud products are facing network connection issues, and there is a risk of a complete network paralysis in Singapore's Availability Zone C. According to reports from foreign media journalists on LinkedIn, the fire occurred at Digital Realty's SIN11 data center.

Data centers are the infrastructure for data storage and processing, and their security is of utmost importance. In recent years, data center fires worldwide have caused significant economic losses and pose a serious threat to personal safety:

1. On October 27, 2023, a data center fire in Bangladesh led to a severe paralysis of the country's internet services, resulting in three deaths;
2. On October 15, 2022, a fire at SK Company's C&C Pangyo data center in South Korea caused about 32,000 servers to go down, affecting services for tens of millions of users;
3. In April 2021, a fire at Web NX, a U.S.-based hosting company, in their Ogden data center in Utah, resulted in the failure of over 3.6 million websites;
4. On March 10, 2021, a severe fire occurred at the data center of the European cloud computing giant OVH in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, France. Out of four data centers, one was completely destroyed, and one-third of the servers in another were damaged.

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