PG&E Planned Power Outage in Sacramento

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For what reason exactly? Political? Give me a break.

These generators are widely used across North America. Regular citizens, hospitals, factories, governmental buildings, military installations and data centers use them regularly. I happen to do fire suppression maintenance/inspections and I have yet to see any buildings you expect to be autonomous without some sort of backup power solution.

I think a server farm would require more energy than diesel generators could reasonably supply. And yeah Air quality stuff. But again, running the servers is moot if the surrounding areas are without power. Which is what I was getting at. If an internet exchange point is down because of the outage it could affect multiple users.