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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 wer…

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[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago (13 children)

It's a total lack of the concept of scale. I've moved servers like this, but when decommissioning them. Things are different when running a corporate data center than when moving a home lab. He doesn't grasp the difference, because he doesn't understand the scale.

Running and moving one computer is different from 150k of them. Hooking them back up the the network without a plan or documentation must have been a challenge.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"What do you mean "challenge", just do it" -Elon probably

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

“Just plug them in, Jesus fucking Christ.”

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