The time: 11:00 PM
The place: a data center in Salt Lake County
The event: an air-conditioning outage.

Enter our protagonist. Let's call him Bubba. Bubba hand-scans past the door of the data center floor to try to bring down some machines (and bring up some others), and is blasted with a wave of oven-like heat from the thousands of computers acting like little space-heaters in a confined space.