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A typical multi-MW power-hungry high-tech facility (datacenters, manufacturing, hospitals etc) will have large underground fuel storage tanks big enough to run
by vinay_ys 5y ago
A typical multi-MW power-hungry high-tech facility (datacenters, manufacturing, hospitals etc) will have large underground fuel storage tanks big enough to run the full load on generators for couple of days and they are continuously kept refilled via fuel tanker trucks through contracts with bulk fuel distributors. They usually have an SLA of a 40KL tanker in 4 hour notice. In case of advance warning of heavy-rains/floods or other natural disasters that can disrupt road networks, they can have more fuel trucks situated close-by as stand-by. Depending on your contract, you may have priority over other customers in the area. These are fairly standard practices.
- laumars 5y agoindeed but that wasn’t the type of facilities that the GP was talking about when they said running web services were a solved problem. If you do move to an established data centre then you’re back to my earlier point that you’re still then dependant on their services instead of having ownership to fix all the problems yourself (which was the original argument the GP made in favour of switching away from the cloud).