Nah, won’t happen. They’ll cut power to homes to prevent the datacenter blackout.
The data center probably won’t black out. They’ll be setup with redundant backup power. The issue is that the emission regulations for that backup power is much more lenient than prime power so it is pretty terrible for the surrounding communities. Some companies are greener than others and try to go above and beyond on those regulations.
Depends how long the colo blackout lasts.
I was just wondering how much should be paid to whom for the policy to be reversed, so that datacenter would be the last thing to be shut down.
Whoever bids highest. Families paying for grandpa’s ventilator vs mark zuckerberg.
I don’t know how it is in US but in Sweden there is a priority list when there is a risk of blackout. Hospitals is one of the highest priorities, if not the highest. Regular families is one of the lowest, it is expected that everyone should be prepared for losing power for a couple of hours. However, some big companies that uses lots of power have a deal with the grid owner that they can be disconnected/reduced power first when there is a risk of blackouts.
same in the US - hospitals first, private homes last. the commenter above you is talking about a ventilator at home
I’m in California where the grid gets stressed out during the summer. Ocassionally, on high demand days, the power company woud perform rolling blackouts to keep up with demand.
Lived close to a large hospital for a while. Our section of the grid never saw those blackouts.
Lived close to a large hospital for a while. Our section of the grid never saw those blackouts.
Same except it we are right under a cell tower. It must be somewhere very high on the priority list - probably for emergency services. We are always the first to get power back after a storm too.
they will just raise your rates again.
That’s called load shedding, data centres are supposed to be able to look after themselves in a power failure or peak demand situation.
I’m so excited for them to run off of illegal methane burners instead…
Bare fucking minimum.
Do it!!!
We’ll see.
Fucking finally
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