Apple's China iCloud data center hit by 'dire' COVID lockdown
The data center Apple uses for iCloud in China has barred employees from leaving for a week, because of a COVID lockdown.
Apple usually operates its own data centers worldwide, but a 2017 controversial law change in China required it to use a local company instead. That government-backed firm, now called Guizhou Cloud Big Data, has announced that it has been working under a "closed loop" system for the last week.
According to Bloomberg, China locked down areas of in almost all of Guiyang's ten districts, including where the data center is based.
"Faced with a dire situation, we need courageous people on the front lines," announced the company on a WeChat posting.
The posting also reportedly explained that the data center was now working on the lockdown "closed loop" system, where staff have to stay on the premises.
Apple is not the only business using this data center. Guizhou Cloud Big Data did not respond to questions about how its customers are being affected.
Since mid-2022, China's health authorities have been implementing severe lockdown procedures. They have successfully limited the spread of COVID, but in the process also affected over 100 of Apple's major suppliers.
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Apple usually operates its own data centers worldwide, but a 2017 controversial law change in China required it to use a local company instead. That government-backed firm, now called Guizhou Cloud Big Data, has announced that it has been working under a "closed loop" system for the last week.
According to Bloomberg, China locked down areas of in almost all of Guiyang's ten districts, including where the data center is based.
"Faced with a dire situation, we need courageous people on the front lines," announced the company on a WeChat posting.
The posting also reportedly explained that the data center was now working on the lockdown "closed loop" system, where staff have to stay on the premises.
Apple is not the only business using this data center. Guizhou Cloud Big Data did not respond to questions about how its customers are being affected.
Since mid-2022, China's health authorities have been implementing severe lockdown procedures. They have successfully limited the spread of COVID, but in the process also affected over 100 of Apple's major suppliers.
Read on AppleInsider
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Interesting how they’re the only country who had people dropping dead on the streets because of cv—you know, the video showing the man keeling over dead as a door nail, yet still conscious enough to put his arms out to break his fall.
Sadly, some people — particularly those anti-mask/anti-vax/anti-safe distancing dimbos (particularly over in America) — are both ignorant and insensitive to the legitimate medical need to protect their loved ones (should they still have any who aren’t estranged or already disowned them), from the appalling misery of their unwarranted suffering or of those left behind in grief.
Had the Covid-19 deniers — in any country (but particularly in America) — been less irresponsible and therefore dangerous in the face of a viral contagion, they would not have lost one million four hundred thousand plus (1,400,000+ US), of their own fellow citizens.
As the rest of the world knows, China endured some of the worst of the novel Coronavirus when it first hit their country so badly in early 2020. It’s logical that the Chinese are extremely keen to introduce compulsory lockdowns early — and hard — to prevent a fresh outbreak spreading to the rest of the provinces.
It’s regrettable that some people, even today, prove themselves incapable of understanding the basic epidemiology of lethal viruses and have learned absolutely nothing about virology or spread prevention from the past two years.
Harder still to see them recklessly politicising a public health emergency on the ︎AppleInsider site where idiots rarely intrude.
To use an old Liverpool adage: “Sort yer head out, mate”.
And now we're getting peer reviewed papers coming out that show how dangerous and unsafe the "vaccines" really are (a lot more serious adverse reactions than previously acknowledged, especially in young people) and how ineffective they are against the current strains.
There is a secret world heath authority do not want to talk about. Trump administration implemented a US policy forbidding the export of covid vaccines to China in 2020.
China has developed a domestic vaccine. It is the only one available to mainland Chinese. This vaccine did not go through the rigorous three stages testing required by FDA. Preliminary results done in South America shows that it is effective only about 60%. On the other hand, the two widely used vaccines, by Pfizer and Moderna, are effective over 90%. This means only 60% of vaccinated people can have protection of serious sickness or even death.
Even with 90% effective, US still experienced wide spread confirmation as well as deaths in the last two years. It is obvious if China does not implement lock downs the casualties will be far more severe than US.
WIth the hostility of US government and Congress toward China, there is little hope US will allow export of these two vaccines to China. US has won a strategic victory over China. China haters could enjoy now.
The thing is, we know that physical separation from a source of the virus is 100% effective. Lockdowns, as oppressive and disruptive as they are, remain the most effective tool for combating the spread of disease. The argument to be had is whether the associated costs are worth it. As vaccine effectiveness increases, as a higher proportion of the populace is vaccinated or has developed "natural immunity", the value proposition changes.
Having contracted Covid myself after my son brought it home from school this August, I can say with absolute certainty and sincerity that I would not wish the virus on anyone. I had two doses of the Pfizer vaccine late last year but no booster; the effects were debilitating but not life-threatening for everyone in my family. I'm still a little surprised that I caught it given my hygiene habits are a little more stringent than most people practice, but clearly the contagion of this particular variant of the virus exceeds even my cautious approach. Regardless, I'd not want to be passing it on to anyone and if I had to endure staying at work for a couple of weeks in a lockdown to make sure that didn't occur... I'd probably do it without complaint.
It will be a happy day when the world can effectively deal with Covid-19, influenza, SARS and other deadly viruses.