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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some poor engineers getting paged late at night:

"WTF?! Why does the servers shutting down one after another? Do we have a rodent on the loose in Sacramento?"

*Check CCTV*

"What is that thing crawling under the floorboard?"

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

It was a Muskrat, very damaging to your companies infrastructure. Some even deem them a plague.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"Rodents. Release the halon gas."

"Wait no, thats Elon Musk!"

"..."

"Release the gas."