[33755] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Involuntary outages may start at 7am PST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Jan 23 01:54:27 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Nathan Stratton' <nathan@robotics.net>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:52:28 -0800
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> From: Nathan Stratton [mailto:nathan@robotics.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:27 PM
>
> On 22 Jan 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > Have any Internet providers or private data centers announced any
> > voluntary "good neighbor" measures such as wider
> temperature and humdity
> > limits, lights-out operation, off-peak use of heavy
> electrical demands
> > for laser printers, etc.
>
> Don't take this the wrong way, but frankly I would not be
> happy if my colo
> providers started implementing wider temperature and humdity
> limits. I pay
> large amounts of money for colo and I want what I am paying
> for. This mess
> was caused by California regulators and very very greedy PG&E
> who gambled
> on lower rates and lost. PG&E should be forces to liquidate
> other out of
> state assets and buy power at the market.
Unfortunately, you are wrong. PG&E is caught between a rock and the
generators. Generator cost has been gouged up over 700% and PG&E is forced
to maintain prices. There is plently of capacity if the generator companies
want to bring it online. Obviously, they don't, because they have a pretty
good blackmail hand right now.
