Power and the Olympics in 2012

[genesiswave at gmail.com (James Costello)]

This is actually a good time to bring this up with your provider.  It allows
you to show your concern, gives your provider time to review and resolve any
issues and time for you to move elsewhere should they not be able to resolve
your concerns.
(as part of full disclosure I work for a hosting provider with space in
London and we are having that discussion now, so thanks MWD for reminding
us)

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jim Chrisos <jchrisos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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