Nils Vogels wrote:
My experience comes from a system that was in a datacenter while they were demolishing the building nextdoor, which was attached to the building.
I've had a filer installed in a basement comms room whilst the building around it and all the floors above it were ripped apart and converted for datacenter use. Apart from needing a huge amount of dust blowing out of it when we finally moved into the finished suite everything was peachy.