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> I don't know of a single enterprise customer that doesn't have their data replicated to two datacenters, and then backed up to some other medium (tape or disk-based backup applia…

Almost certainly not. AFAIK the technology to do street-level imagery from satellites is still mostly only on government spy satellites, and certainly isn’t cheap enough to put on …

Elon himself has stated that Starlink is not intended to and should not be seen as a competitor to traditional terrestrial ISPs. It’s meant to supplement people in rural and possib…

Did you misread my comment? I didn’t say this event was due to Mother Nature, and the entire second half is specifically about how the Austin Energy grid is mismanaged and victim t…

Lol, this could not be a more perfect example of exactly what I’m talking about. Nowhere in my comment did I say that Texas politicians are not to blame (in fact, I said the opposi…

Beaumont has indeed been subject to blackouts. They’re covered by MISO and were under EEA Level 2 and rolling blackouts, and the area is currently under a boil water notice. They h…

MISO, the grid that covers parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and more also had to do this: https://www.entergynewsroom.com/news/entergy-forced-initiate...

For reference, the Laredo, Railroad, and Eagle Pass ties are all connections to Mexico’s power grid. They’ve been at zero most of this week because Mexico is also dealing with majo…

http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/225369 > the Midwest went into a power emergency of their own, and ERCOT was no longer able to import approximately 600 MW.

I’m in Austin and I have to agree. The media and especially social media would have you believe that the literal apocalypse happened this week (if you dare, go read r/Austin and wi…

You asked if extreme cold weather had caused problems in states other than Texas. It did, and I commented so. But if you want to play “move the goalposts”, I’m not going to bother …

I have been amazed, and also disappointed, by the amount of people that want this to be the fault of “stupid conservative Texas” and absolutely refuse to even entertain the idea th…

> Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri all had blackouts this we…

> although the interconnect bandwidth was fully utilized, we need solid data on whether the neighboring states facing similar struggles could spare significantly more capacity. If …

The Texas producers all currently exceed the national-level recommendations for winterization. Also AFAIK, the natural gas providers are subject to federal regulations (they are no…

Exactly. The DC ties with the other grids are small and can only import TX also has ties with Mexico, but those were useless too because even Mexico was hit hard by this storm and …

Nope, if you even took five seconds to read up on how the OMSes at power utilities work, you’d know this isn’t the case. Utility companies are not even close to having their grids …

Do you not realize that utility providers outage maps are updated based on crowdsourced information from customers? And as I mentioned in my comment, utility providers do not consi…

The site you are referencing is a crowdsourced site. It takes five seconds of looking at the numbers to see that it has incomplete data. Most major public utilities are saying that…

Did anyone make that claim? No. Go re-read my comment and try again.

MISO does not have the capacity either. Sections of eastern Texas, such as Orange, are under MISO, and they too have been dealing with blackouts due to lack of capacity. Parts of L…

> when was the last time NY literally had no power? They benefit from being highly connected. Do you not remember the blackouts of 2003? Multiple entire states went dark for hours,…

https://www.kmbc.com/article/southwest-power-pool-again-orde... Oklahoma has been dealing with rolling blackouts for the past several days. Tell me why this is, since apparently yo…

You’re missing the point. Even if the ties had more capacity, the supply of power on the other side of the ties is not there. It’s a two-pronged issue, and you won’t solve the prob…

Yes, that’s correct. Texas has 5 ties to the western/eastern US interconnections as well as with the Mexico grid. But none of that matters right now because those grids don’t have …