PG&E Planned Power Outage in Sacramento

[MariaArvana]

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.

"I can only speak for the general region I work at, but every single datacenter & node across the entire province are equipped with backup power reserves in the event of a large scale power outage. Literally everything else could go down but networking access would be uninterrupted. Every minute of downtime costs thousands of dollars lost in profit, so my datacenter has three separate backup power systems installed in case even one of the Redundant systems fails." - my BF.

Could be different for Cali, but considering that's smack dab in the middle of silicone/tech valley, I wouldn't be surprised if the apocalypse could happen and networking would be uninterrupted there. Not to mention for the game to be unconnectable, literally every single route into Sacremento would have to be shutdown, something that even if a few nodes fail, is something insanely unlikely. As long as one active route to sacremento exists, connection will be possible, just maybe slightly higher ping.

EDIT: also from the article Hyomin linked - "The planned shutoff appears to spare most of Silicon Valley’s big tech operations."