Power outages continued affecting large areas of Brisbane, Australia, and its suburbs as the region grappled with this week’s massive flooding on Thursday morning, local time. Energex, a large energy provider in the region, said more than 110,000 customers had been affected by power outages by about 10:30 am.

Local providers of data center services contacted by DatacenterDynamics observed little instances of prolonged downtime among their peers in the area, as many affected data centers had successfully switched to generator power.

Although hosting provider New Sprout’s data center is located outside Brisbane’s central business district (one of the most heavily flooded areas), the company experienced a period of downtime that lasted about five minutes because of an outage at a facility that was part of its network.

"One of our upstream providers goes straight through CBD," Gavin Payne, managing director at New Sprout said. "Some of our uplinks were affected."

Service was restored as soon as New Sprout switched to a different upstream provider.

Many data centers in the affected area were running on generator power and Payne said he did not foresee a problem with delivering additional diesel fuel to the facilities if necessary given the flood waters were receding.

NOC technician at Host Networks Patrick Ohearn (Host Networks is another local hosting company), said he was not aware of many data center outages that had taken place as a result of the flood. He was only aware of one facility that went offline: an AAPT data center.

AAPT is a large Australian telecom. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the company said it had experienced an outage in a number of fiber routes between Sydney and Brisbane on Monday, caused by the flooding.

Several AAPT sites in the State of Queensland were under threat and the company’s technicians had been moving equipment out of those sites. AAPT representatives could not be reached for comment.

The network of AAPT competitor Telstra also suffered damage. While the company’s core network held up well, some sites were flooded and could not be accessed to repair the damage, said Sue Passmore, Telstra general manager for North Coast New South Wales.

"Where possible, alternative power sources have already been activated for Telstra sites without mains power," she said.