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Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday
Nerval's Lobster writes "The local utility serving most of the New York City area, Con Edison, reported that it should begin supplying utility power to midtown and lower Manhattan by Saturday evening, returning the island's data centers and citizens to some semblance of normalcy. In the past few days, data center managers have been forced to add fuel logistics to their list of responsibilities, as most Manhattan data centers have been subsisting on generator power. That should come to an end, for the most part, when utility power is restored. In a possibly worrying note, Verizon warned late on Nov. 1 that its services to business customers could be impacted due to lack of fuel."
Fucking punk ass bitch.
Hopefully the suffering people of this unfortunate city will finally get some help; they seem to going through quite a lot and it is time they got some help to get things back on track. First 9/11 and now this. Have they not suffered enough?
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Dozens are dead, billions of dollars of property destroyed and businesses decimated, millions still in darkness and cold, and you are talking about data centers??
Data centers cannot feed my family or heat my cold, flooded house.
Where is your decency sir? It's a long week and weekend for the millions affected and the first responders. The glibness of this post is shocking and disgusting.
In the past few days, data center managers have been forced to add fuel logistics to their list of responsibilities, as most Manhattan data centers have been subsisting on generator power.
Any datacenter manager that doesn't already have fuel logistics in their disaster plan is in the wrong line of work. Few inner city datacenters have a week or more of fuel on-site - most have only days of fuel, and they count on fuel contracts from suppliers to keep them running. And the supplier may not be able to honor the contract in a disaster.
Suburban and rural datacenters have the space (and less conflict with fire codes since the fuel is not stored in or near an office building) to keep weeks of fuel on hand. The last datacenter that I colocated in had 2 weeks of fuel on-site, and had another week of fuel in a trailer that can be trucked in from their other facility 60 miles away if the roads are passable. They had a spare generator that can be trucked in from that other facility as well. (and this facility could send fuel and a generator to that facility if needed)
Seriously. What a depressing, crowded, corrupt, smelly shithole full of drugs, crime, and rude motherfuckers who think incidental eye contact is advanced aggression. Then there's the cost of living. And god help you if you try to drive there. Oh and if anything ever happens to disrupt the food supply, a city that size is the last goddamned place you wanna be.
Amen, brother. Some might even go so far as to argue divine cleansing.
Power to mid and lower Manhattan means a lot of people who have been without power will finally have it (and all the modern conveniences like refrigeration we rely so heavily on). It also means subway service between Manhattan and Brooklyn will come back sooner, which will be huge.
and wash the scum off the streets.
And in the brilliance of the building engineers, the generator is in the basement.
Which is now filled with 13 feet of water.
It's going to be fun cleaning up.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
You guys recently bought slashdot, and let me say, the first few "sponsored links" have been a real disappointment. TFA has a picture that's a screenshot of the ConEd website, and poorly cropped. The information is almost 10 hours out of date at time of posting, and most of the article consists of direct quotes from articles previously submitted to slashdot! Where's the originality? Where's the reporting on why this matters? Journalism includes an analysis of the facts, not just a compilation of them.
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Having power there maybe in 36 hours would lead to the subway maybe running Wednesday at best. You need power to pump the water out and time to clean and repair.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
And that, in a nut shell is why, you don't really want to use "The Cloud".
Keep your data within reach.
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While shopping around for data center resources I was always amused by the data centers being offered on the island of Manhattan. Given the speed of light and the vast abundance of local meet-me rooms and extreme bandwidth on and off the island itself, coupled with the massive off-site capabilities established shortly after 9/11, why would I ever want to tolerate the risk and excessively high cost of a data center in Manhattan?
Especially after 9/11, the idea just seemed silly. But then I listen to DI.FM and they're one of those services that has been severely affected by Sandy for having a data center in Manhattan.
Kriston
No! Keep the datacenters dead!
Gawker right now is running an "emergency site" - it's finally got a usable layout, it's fast and readable. It's, well, useful.
Bring back those datacenters and it means Gawker is going to go back to the craptacular unreadable unnavigatable and sluggish site that it was before the storm.
You know, this one"?
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