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PARIS — Numerous companies and websites in France suffered outages and disruptions to services after a fire swept through a cloud computing provider's facility.Disruption continued Thursday after OVH said the fire erupted early Wednesday in a room at one of its data centres in Strasbourg in eastern France. No one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed one of the site's four data centres and damaged another one.“Firefighters were immediately on the scene but could not control the fire," CEO Octave Klaba tweeted. He advised companies to activate their disaster recovery plans.The company did not give an immediate explanation for the fire. Klaba said the company would work on restoring services and checking fiber optic connections.On Wednesday, Strasbourg Airport tweeted that “due to the fire that broke out last night in the OVH Cloud company...

The OVH data center is seen in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, March 11, 2021. A fire broke out on Wednesday in a room of one of the 4 OVH cloud data center affecting websites in several European countries. The origin of this fire is being investigated and no injuries are to be deplored. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias) Numerous companies and websites in France suffered outages and disruptions to services after a fire swept through a cloud computing provider's facility. Disruption continued Thursday after OVH said the fire erupted early Wednesday in a room at one of its data centers in Strasbourg in eastern France. No one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed one of the site's four data...