If the three data centers are all around Hillsboro, Oregon, an earthquake could probably take out all three simultaneously.
If the three data centers are all around Hillsboro, Oregon, an earthquake could probably take out all three simultaneously.
Is it west of I5?
(yes)
Oh yeah, they all gone.
Cascadia Subduction Zone - https://pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz
Between that, and being ~50 miles inland - I'd say there's ~zero threat of Cascadia quakes or tsunamis directly knocking out those DC's. (Yeah, larger-scale infrastructure and social order could still be killers.)
OTOH - Mt. St. Helens is about 60 miles NNE of Hillsboro. If that really went boom, and the wind was right...how many cm's of dry volcanic ash can the roofs of those DC's bear? What if rain wets that ash? How about their HVAC systems' filters?
https://www.oregon.gov/oem/Documents/Cascadia_Rising_Exercis...
50% of roads and near 75% of bridges damaged on the west coast and the I5 corridor.
Refer to PDF page #93 where over 70% of power generation is highly damaged on the I5 corridor and 60% in the coastal areas with 0% undamaged.
Highly damaged - "Extensive damage to generation plants, substations, and buildings. Repairs are needed to regain functionality. Restoring power to meet 90% of demand may take months to one year."
"In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, cities within 100 miles of the Pacific coastline may experience partial or complete blackout. Seventy percent of the electric facilities in the I-5 corridor may suffer considerable damage to generation plants, and many distribution circuits and substations may fail, resulting in a loss of over half of the systems load capacity (see Table 22). Most electrical power assets on the coast may suffer damage severe enough as to render the equipment and structures irreparable"
The two big problems I'd see would be (1) Social Order and (2) Internet Connectivity. DC's are not fortresses, and internet backbone fibers/routers/etc. are distributed & kinda fragile.
*After all the large-scale power outages & near-outages of recent decades, Cloudflare has no excuse if they lack really-good backup generators at critical facilities. And with their size, Cloudflare must support enough "critical during major disaster" internet services to actually get such generators.