Comment by MrDunham

I’m very close with someone who works at a FB data center and was discussing this exact issue.

I can only speak to one problem I know of (and am rather sure I can share): a spike might trip a bunch of breakers at the data center.

BUT, unlike me at home, FBs policy is to never flip a circuit back on until you’re positive of the root cause of said trip.

By itself that could compound issues and delay ramp up time as they’d work to be sure no electrical components actually sorted/blew/etc. A potentially time sucking task given these buildings could be measured in whole units of football fields.