Power and the Olympics in 2012

[jchrisos at gmail.com (Jim Chrisos)]

I would think that the data centers have backup generators and batteries
which should be able to sustain rolling blackouts.  Furthermore, I'm also
sure they have contracts for refueling the generators for such a scenario as
you outlined.  I'd speak to the data centers if your concern lies with
machines hosted there.  Or are you speaking of machines hosted somewhere
other than the data center?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Monkey Daemon <
monkeywebdaemon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here in the UK we've got the olympics coming up in the next three
> years.  I don't care about the sport (except maybe the beach
> volleyball :P) but I am concerned about the power draw on London's
> grid, especially as some (most) of the major datacentres in the UK
> have Line of Sight to most of the major olympic venues.
>
> Having read recently about grid-outage cascade effects that could be
> triggered by small failures, does anyone know if an outage at an
> olympic venue would be enough to trigger a grid failure? or am I just
> being paranoid?
>
> MWD
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