Plus it's... California. UC Berkeley is literally a 44 mile drive (reported as 1 hr 19 min right now) from Tesla's HQ. Generators do present some retrofit issue

Plus it's... California. UC Berkeley is literally a 44 mile drive (reported as 1 hr 19 min right now) from Tesla's HQ. Generators do present some retrofit issues, but now that I read this I'm actually moderately surprised they haven't long since investigated at least a few Powerwalls for various labs. UC Berkeley has a $4.5+ billion endowment IIRC, and on the scale of lab equipment, grants, and how much value would be lost if even a single experiment or sample set was in fact destroyed it does seem like a weird oversight. PG&E's woes are hardly breaking news either, nor are fire seasons even ignoring any other disasters. I mean, I'm used to IT in general, and security in particular, being treated as a cost hole and given as skimpy as budget as possible and then some until something breaks. But at least that's more intangible, and I guess from a cold hold MBA point of view it's not as if most places are really punished that hard for security breaches unfortunately. But power loss and having valuable work/material lost every year seems like it should be more tangible.