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Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by H1Supreme on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:12PM (#29652154)
> You need a back up generator and to be a short distance away from a petrol station

My building has a natural gas backup generator.

Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by Johnny555 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:55PM (#29652754)
Does it have its own gas well? My sister has a home backup generator, they lost power during some cold snap and some pumping component failed and her neighborhood lost gas too. The only house in the neighborhood that had heat/power had a big propane tank because it was built before the neighborhood got gas.

I’ve never seen a data center with natural gas backup power. But I don't know if that's because of reliability or if it's too expensive for a big natural gas hookup that's used rarely. Though I have heard of the opposite -- using natural gas turbines as primary power and utility power as backup.