Some c suite dullard at my old job got dinged for not having proper redundancy for a datacenter at one of the companies they binge-ingested. So the “solution” was to build an offsite hot swap replica at another location that was pretty much at capacity for power delivery (and distribution: they let UPS systems run at 90+ capacity for years because “it’s not 100%”, only for there to be a mad scramble once that final straw got reached and the failures started). The power company said it was a minimum 6 month lead time for an additional transformer to be installed with no guarantees.
I can believe that it’s only gotten worse since then.
So this was a thing long before the AI boom.
Some c suite dullard at my old job got dinged for not having proper redundancy for a datacenter at one of the companies they binge-ingested. So the “solution” was to build an offsite hot swap replica at another location that was pretty much at capacity for power delivery (and distribution: they let UPS systems run at 90+ capacity for years because “it’s not 100%”, only for there to be a mad scramble once that final straw got reached and the failures started). The power company said it was a minimum 6 month lead time for an additional transformer to be installed with no guarantees.
I can believe that it’s only gotten worse since then.