> It is not feasible to have generators to operate at this Scale? Getting an exact figure on how much utility power they use is proving difficult, but let’s sh

> It is not feasible to have generators to operate at this Scale? Getting an exact figure on how much utility power they use is proving difficult, but let’s shoot on the very high side and say it’s 100MW. It’s fairly easy these days to buy generators that put out 10MW of power and are either diesel or natural gas powered. Price wildly varies based on a number of factors, but even on the very high end that would cost $50M for ten such generators. The facility itself was in the multiple billions range to build, so the added cost would be a rounding error. The environmental hazards alone due to losing containment, let alone how much the outage costs in lost business, seems pretty logical to me then that the generators existed. So the question really is, was it incompetence (unexpected failure of backup systems) or malice (good excuse to justify constraining supply)? We will likely never know.