Hi GV, PG&E decided to "save" electricity in Silicon Valley by randomly cutting power to startups in the Valley - not Cisco, Intel, Sun, Juniper, HP, Yahoo and folks on those lines of elec power, but startups. Arg.
Can't they plan this stuff? I mean, to cut electricity smack in the middle of the workday in Silicon Valley is absolutely ridiculous. If they weren't the folks that supply our electricity, I would hope they would go out of business. I'm not inclined to think the government should help them. At least they could schedule these outages so folks can work from home. What is so difficult about raising rates, getting more efficient, and planning for growth?
edit: I mean, they expect startups to pay for their error? I'd love to send them our payroll bill for the time that PG&E decided to cut the power in the Valley to save electricity. And I mean a complete cut of electricity, i.e. completely black, no Servers nor PCs worked. Complete downtime, unless you could work on a laptop outside.
Regards,
Amy J |
