alt Hacker NewsDoesn't matter where you are you need that. There is no place in the world where the grid is reliable enough that someone who wants to operate with high reliability can get by without ample backup power. Grid power is normally a lot cheaper than running backup power (that is the capital and maintenance costs are sunk costs, just counting fuel) so it isn't worth disconnecting from the grid despite having enough backup power that you could.
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One of my previous employers only lost our east-coast colo facility twice in their couple decades of existence:
- once when the DC ran out of diesel and couldn't get any more after Hurricane Sandy
- once when the backup generators caught fire and the fire department needed to kill grid power to the facility
Everything else is pretty reliable or easier to decouple from the local real world
some former soviet industrial parks are like that. They had redundant direct lines from say local power plant, a direct line from fairly far geographically removed Nuclear power plant and regular grid. They were classified as critical consumer so hospitals would get cut from the grid before they would.
There are grids where you are planning for hours of power outage, grids where you plan for days, and grids where you plan for weeks. Texas is in that last category. And you have to ensure your internet uplink has similarly reliable backup power