Turning servers off for two weeks (Safe?)

The air conditioning unit in our server room has broken down. The room is very small with 4 servers in it and there is no other way to ventilate the room to let the heat out. Currently we have
the door open, but this will need to be shut for next 2 weeks for security reasons.
The site is not in use for the next two weeks, is there any issue with turning the server off for two weeks?
I know in the past there was a risk of hard drive seizing up, is this still the case? All of the hard drives are SAS drives and the oldest server is around 6-7 years old.
I would appreciate some input.

If the servers are not needed, then powering them down seems a reasonable option.
Risks concerning hard drives seizing up disappeared several generations of disk drives back.... or maybe we just quit turning off computers and it just doesn't happen anymore.
On the other hand, it's unlikely that four servers are going to generate enough heat to be an issue. Today's servers are actually pretty heat tolerant in terms of ambient room temperature, and while you might not want to run a bunch of 'em in a 90F
room permanently, a couple of weeks may be quite tolerable.
One approach might be to put a thermometer in the room, close the door for a couple hours, then come back and check the temperature and compare it to the documented/supported ambient room temperature for each server.
In the end, it seems like it's just a comparison of two risk factors:
The risk of the machine not starting up vs the risk of the machine overheating due to ambient temperature.
Which risk seems more certain? :-)
Then again... your question was posted over two weeks ago, so maybe the real question is what you actually did do, and how it worked out.
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