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"Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was
in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that
article, a number of ex-Twitter employees were quoted about how much work it
would be to do that cleanly, noting that there’s a ton of stuff hardcoded in
Twitter code referring to that data center (hold that thought).
That same day, Elon tweeted out that he had “disconnected one of the more
sensitive server racks.”
CNBC is running an excerpt from the new Walter Isaacson book about Elon that
details what happened with the closing of the data center, and it is way, way,
way crazier than even I expected. When Musk talked about how he “disconnected
one of the more sensitive server racks,” he meant that entirely literally, in
that he literally unplugged it, involving a series of improbable (and
ridiculously dangerous and stupid) decisions that resulted with him under the
floorboards in the data center pulling the plug, after multiple people warned
him not to."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
