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Massive Fire at Datacentre in Almere, NL-Alert Circulated - DutchNews.nl
The blaze forced evacuations and cut emergency transport communications after a diesel tank and lost backup power complicated response efforts, officials said.
- A major fire broke out at the NorthC Datacenters facility in Almere on Thursday morning, prompting emergency services to escalate to GRIP 1 classification within 40 minutes.
- Firefighters successfully evacuated all personnel from the Rondebeltweg site while deploying a crash tender from Lelystad Airport to cool a diesel tank as a precaution against further escalation.
- The outage disabled public transport emergency communications across Utrecht, knocked Utrecht University offline, and disrupted billing services for Infomedics, which processes healthcare provider payments.
- Authorities issued an NL-Alert across Flevoland warning residents to close windows due to smoke, while Transdev drivers lost contact with their control center because backup servers had not been migrated.
- This incident demonstrates physical fragility in digital infrastructure, mirroring past events like the OVHcloud fire in Strasbourg, where at least 22 significant data centre fires between 2014 and 2023 exposed recurring structural problems.
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NorthC data centre fire in Almere knocks Utrecht University offline and disables public transport emergency system across Utrecht province
A fire at NorthC's Almere data centre triggered an NL-Alert, knocked Utrecht University offline, and disabled emergency communications for public transport across Utrecht province.
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A major fire broke out at a NorthC data center in Almere on Thursday. The safety region has sent an NL-Alert to local residents....
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A fire at a data center of the company NorthC in Almere has caused problems at Utrecht University, the public transport company Transdev in Utrecht, and the national Chambers of Commerce.
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A major fire broke out at a data center along the A6 near Almere on Thursday morning. An NL-Alert was sent out due to the smoke.
·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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·Amersfoort, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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