Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

["Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh () concentric net>]

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."
> <jdfalk () cybernothing org>                                           -- Koz

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