An air conditioning fault at a Level3 data center in Nanterre, France, caused temperatures in the data center to exceed 50 degrees Celsius Tuesday morning, causing problems for colocation and hosting customers. Most customers were affected by website downtime, among these the website French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, according to a report by AFP. The incident occurred when a water pipe feeding the cooling system ÔÇ£droppedÔÇØ according to news site TFI. "It's 55 degrees in the server room. Our technical teams involved since 4am and we decided to stop 90% of our servers in order to protect our equipment," Level 3 told AFP. In a separate email to DatacenterDynamics, the company said: ÔÇ£In the early morning hours on Tuesday, Nov. 22, a water supply line for cooling systems broke at Level 3's Paris Gateway. Level 3's local field technicians worked quickly to drain the water and bring coolant systems back online. While a select number of Level 3's on-site customers chose to reboot their systems as a result of the increased temperatures, the incident did not impact any of Level 3's core network services.ÔÇØ One data center spokeperson was quote late Tuesday morning as saying :ÔÇ£We have repaired the leak and we are refilling the system with water, but you must wait until there is enough pressure to restart the cooling, it is expected soon," a data center spokesperson said late Tuesday morning.ÔÇØ According to French news website GNT, employees were even using desk fans to ease the situation, forcing the hot air away from servers.