My schools entire assignment system is out today.

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[–] 56 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I just want AWS, Azure, Google, & Cloudflare to go down at the same time.

And maybe stay down.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    If a nation wants to go to war with the US ... this is how they do it, they just shut down one, two or all of these systems down and watch the country go crazy. It wouldn't destroy the country, just disrupt it enough to make them go nuts and then do more things to them in other ways.

    It's amazing when you think about it, first the US invested in heavily defending and arming itself in the 60s, 70s and 80s ... then it spent billions more in the 90s and 2000s to try to come up with ever more inventive ways to screw itself from the inside.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    No. Everyone always focuses on the flashy stuff like datacenters but the truth is that the most vulnerable, overtaxed, and underfunded weak-spot for the United States is the electric grid.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I'm pretty convinced that if we did have a complete grid failure, we wouldn't be able to complete a cold start.

    Too many people would be pushing for their section to be started first so they could short the market first.

    Edit: my proofreading sucks

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Doesn't matter who wants want, the power company has contingency plans and those plans are what is happening.

    SOURCE: Worked for Cox after a major ice storm smashed north-central Oklahoma flat. Lived Hurricane Ivan and saw their rollout priorities.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which in turn would take down the datacenters too, so same effect, just more severe

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Most data centers are backed up by generators.

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