[l2ridehd]

The real issue is why it happened. Every commercial business I know of who has back up power also has an emergency fuel delivery contract with severe penalties for failure. I managed 45 data centers scattered all over the globe and we had these contracts in place everywhere. Usually what happens when you have a known event as this was, the fuel company that has that contract will just park a full fuel truck close by. When is is an unplanned event, earthquake, flood, fire, they will do what ever it takes to get the fuel in place. I think at one time or another, I have seen every possible emergency that exists and I never lost a center due to lack of diesel fuel. True our tanks were always much bigger, but we also would consume a lot when those generators were running. I well remember the Y2K bill when I switched every data center over to back up power 12 hours before and 12 hours after midnight local time. This was a very easy problem to solve.