While Americans are celebrating the 4th of July holiday and also many are travelling around the country, the Bing Travel website was down for over 30 hours. However, there is great news as the power problems in the Fisher Plaza data center is being solved now. Bing Travel has come back live online (as seen on this print screen).
According to Jim Clayton, the VP and GM of Fisher Communications' Seattle broadcast properties, as quoted from TechFlash:
"We had a power surge last night, and the power surge overheated some of our switch gear, and the switch gear began to smoke, and when it smokes, the fire suppression protocol takes over, and then it dumps water, so that really took the building offline, and because there was so much water there, even though our generator system did, in fact, work, it can't be put online just because of safety issues until we're certain that all of the water is out of the switch gear."
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