Before technically correct comments attack the use of the word 'melting' here, as in the runway threads, please give the journalist a bit of slack here for using it in the title.<p>The key part about this is the consistent theme of the day that many parts of UK infrastructure, both public and private, were not engineered to withstand 40 degree Celsius.
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably: <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/" rel="nofollow">https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick...</a>
It seems odd that the data centers would run on such tight max external temperature limits to where this causes such an issue. I am probably missing something though, anyone have insight into what is causing them to fall over so easily with these heatwaves?