Thermal event is an interesting choice of phrasing isn't it? Assuming a cooling failure, they could say cooling failure. When I read thermal event I'm imagining... A server catching fire, really hot weather, too many servers at 100%cpu next to each other, someone smoking in the building, a Molotov, arson. Unless that's it and they don't want to say the real reason.

It's probably a script generating the text.

Should it have assumptions based on temperature readings? >10,000k => nuclear attack / supernova?

Thought the same! Scale includes everything from a minor AC fault through to entire building burning to the ground.

They don't use AC in Europe so probably it just got too hot even with the windows open

In homes maybe that's true for the moment.

But we've got plenty of it in offices and public areas, and definitely within datacentres over here...

woosh

I had never seen that account style before, so I checked, and yup:

* https://twitter.com/us_east_1

* https://twitter.com/us_east_2

* https://twitter.com/us_west_1

* https://twitter.com/us_west_2 (although, lol, "Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.")

I think it's cute that their account's "Location" is set to the right city

luckily not one of the largest regions:

https://github.com/patmyron/cloud/#ip-addresses-per-region