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I have a pretty busy system that's heavily monitored in that DC and can second this. I can't think of a single outage of my VMs there that wasn't either my fault or a scheduled migration.

Yes. We are opening a once in a generation kinder surprise

let's hope the data center hasn't been OVH'ed

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B...

If the data centre status page is to believed there are no data-centre level incidents: http://status.equinix.com/ then again i don't know if they hooked in the fire detectors.

That and Linode state they are fixing it:

> Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Aug 1, 22:28 UTC

Apparently it's a power issue

https://twitter.com/linode/status/1554237287029940224

Similar here, first time a wide spread issue simultaneously took most of my Linodes completely offline.