CNET:

An electrical fire at downtown Seattle’s Fisher Plaza has interrupted service at a growing roster of Web sites, including Microsoft’s Bing Travel and Authorize.net.

Fisher Communications said in statement Friday that the problems at the Fisher Plaza data center started in a garage-level electrical room at approximately 11:10 p.m. Thursday night. Fisher said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Some of the affected sites put up messages explaining what had happened. “The blown transformer knocked out power to the entire building, which is home to the Bing Travel servers,” a message on Bing Travel said. “This is isolated to Bing Travel only, and there is no impact to any other aspect of Bing.”

Bing Travel said it’s working hard to restore service, and set 5 p.m. PDT Friday as the target time for resumption of service (it did not meet that goal). “In the meantime, you may use Microsoft travel partner Orbitz for your travel needs,” the site said.

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Tags: Authorize.net

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