North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: San Francisco power outages imminent
Power outages today in San Jose and Cupertino starting at 0100pm PDT I was back at work and didn't notice when it ended. "J.D. Falk" wrote: > I've seen a few messages forwarded from friends at various > SF companies, especially South of Market, saying that PG&E has > been calling them and asking that they reduce power utilization. > > Word is they're not capable of handling the current demand (it > is the second day of what feels like a serious heat wave, with > temperatures over 90 degrees all over the Bay Area), and power > may be shut off on a rotating basis, a block or a few blocks at > a time, if the load cannot be reduced. > > There're a lot of "big name" companies in that area, including > Looksmart, Critical Path, Organic Online, Topica, and many, > many more. Not sure how many of them have production servers > in/near their offices, but it's not uncommon for startups (or > recently-past-startup-phase companies) to stupidly have their > production machines rely on being able to exchange data with > their offices, so who knows what might happen. > > Mmm, fun! > > Any word on how San Jose is holding up? Got a lot of data- > centers there.... > > -- > J.D. Falk "Practice random funk and senseless disco moves." > <[email protected]> -- Koz -- Thank you; |--------------------------------| | Thinking is a learned process. | | ICANN member @large | | Gigabit over IP, ieee 802.17 | |--------------------------------| Henry R. Linneweh
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