US hunters shoot down Google fibre
Found on IT News on Monday, 20 September 2010
Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were "regularly" shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground.
"What people do for sport or because they're bored, they try to shoot at the insulators," Gill said.
"Every November when hunting season starts invariably we know that the fibre will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground path [for it]."
You may have state of the art data center, but there will always be a problem nobody thought of. Even if that problem are rednecks with guns.