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M4NOOB t1_ix0lk16 wrote

Reply to comment by derKestrel in TIFU by shutting down an entire airline in 1997, costing them six figures. by BikerJedi

They usually also have at least 2 power supplies and therefore at least 2 power cables for redundancy..

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derKestrel t1_ix157yx wrote

Unless one broke and you never got funds for a replacement...

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erudite_luddite t1_ix4a6k2 wrote

Haha, this is the answer! A casino in AZ decided to co-opt the back-up systems rather than fix the mains and when a "Flood Of A Century!!!"(1) flooded the basement, they were offline for months. They had fired their services provider the year prior and decided to manage in-house, to cut costs.

(1) It was a typical monsoon storm, happens > 100 times a century.

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Pinkfatrat t1_ix2pyf9 wrote

I have to laugh at this, because I remember when n+1 power supplies came out , they weren’t always a thing.

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