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Re:Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design by politician on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:34PM (#30268445)
If you shut down the datacenter, then all of the folks that rely on IoT-controlled furnaces will freeze in _their_ homes!
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Re:Texas power crisis revealed flaw in market’s design by danans on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:33PM (#30268854)
Smart thermostats all fall back to offline manual operation.
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