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I hope they hording diesel, the power provider is continuously forcing 4000MW+ load shedding/reduction, with 4+ hours of rolling blackout everyday over the enti
by Dead_Lemon 4y ago
I hope they hording diesel, the power provider is continuously forcing 4000MW+ load shedding/reduction, with 4+ hours of rolling blackout everyday over the entire country.
- mikro2nd 4y agoI hope they're rather hoarding solar panels... That said, I'll bet solid Swiss money that Google is aware of the electricity supply situation here and has planned/is planning around it.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago
- nevi-me 4y agoI'd also bet some money on that. Even at a residential level, the fiber rollout in many suburbs and few townships allows us to remain connected during the 2 hour planned outages. A lot more people are buying small UPS devices to power our routers and modems. A lot of businesses continue to invest in solar, I don't think a cloud provider that's carbon-conscious would leave their operations to diesel generators and mostly non-renewable electricity (https://www.eskom.co.za/dataportal/supply-side/station-build-up-for-the-last-7-days https://www.eskom.co.za/dataportal/supply-side/station-build...). The link is to the supply mix over the past 7 days. I'm South African, working remotely for a US employer. We often joke that my colleagues' broadband is 3rd world while mine is 1st world, as it seems easier to get a good fiber line here than there.
- mikro2nd 4y agoUnless you live out in the sticks (as I do) ;) Then you're pretty-much stuck with 5Mb/s DSL :P