• Lurking Hobbyist🕸️@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Y’know how, if you turn off computers the wrong way, they can be damaged and go blue screen of death, especially if in a middle of an update? This is what needs to happen to data centers, just yank the power cord and plunge them into darkness.

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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      13 days ago

      Would be interesting to shut down all those data centers and just see how quiet the internet is after, because the bots are all down.

      I know it’s impractical but it would be very interesting.

    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 days ago

      the really important stuff is all backed up on magnetic tape drives. it would lose them some money but only until the backup recovery is done