On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Stephen Stuart wrote:
If reliable power is not considered an essential part of facility infrastructure, how would you suggest that tenants get it? I think that the incident at the WilTel POP in Santa Clara, CA, is sufficient to prove that having individual tenants each supply their own (typically small) UPS is a Bad Thing - the power was out long enough to drain them to zero, furthermore (this part I have second hand) some of them didn't take well to being flatlined like that. If everyone were left to solve that problem on their own ... well, imagine everyone jockeying to park their trailer-mounted portable generator near the door. Yow.
Do you feel the same way about air conditioning? Security?
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