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chrisandchrisyesterday at 2:43 PM1 replyview on HN

> I assume that datacenters UPSes are better [...]

I don't know about specific datacenter models, but in our colocation there are humans available 24/7. So the UPS might not start after failure, but there's a human to figure it out.


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amlutoyesterday at 2:57 PM

Most (all?) decent datacenters also have generators on site, and the intent is that the UPS will never run out of charge. So the fully-discharged case is an error and it might be intentional to require intervention to recover.

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