Re:Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
by hvidgaard on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:17AM
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Nice straw man. But I'll go with it for no other reason that I hope no one believes in that absurdity as an argument against planning for component supply issues. Issues that businesses have experienced time and time again since we began mass producing transistors.
That is because it's a utility that source power from several producers. The risk of no power what so ever for a prolonged time is not something to even be considered. Should that happen, society as we know it is probably at risk and my job is no longer important at all. Oh, and someone actually do plan for intermittent power delivery failure including having two different outside sources for power, a battery backup and diesel generators, data centers come to mind.
Re:Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
by FeepingCreature on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:42AM
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Don't big businesses often have Diesel generators to keep power to essential devices going through outages?
Re:Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
by vkou on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:05PM
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I don't mean a two-day power interruption, I mean a two-year power interruption.
And if they intend to feed the generator in perpetuity, I'll happily shift the goalposts to some other critical supplier not providing their services.
Re:Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
by erik_seaberg on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:14AM
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I don’t know that massive datacenters are truly a good investment for my employer, but at least we have several zones in two regions in case of power/network/natural disaster issues.
Re:Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
by selimthegrim on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:06AM
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You’d better tell the city of New Orleans that.
This doesn't mean they should go out and build their own gas peaker plant.
We live in a society, and no man is an island. You can't control everything you depend on. Sure, you can control some things you depend on, but that's a long, and expensive rabbit hole. Hoarding twenty years of canned food and seventy thousand rounds of ammuniton is all well and good, unless doing so puts you in a situation where you can't pay rent.