[29238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco power outages imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry R. Linneweh)
Thu Jun 15 01:31:38 2000
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:58:45 -0700
From: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net>
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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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