Comment by minimaltom
15 hours ago
This is a great writeup! thank you!!
Reminds when i did noogler training back in the day and one of the talks described a cascading failure at a datacenter, starting with a cat which was too curious near a power conditioner, and briefly conducted
The cat incident at a facility I worked at.
Its cold up here in the winter, sadly, the residual heat from even totally passive components like switch gear is enough to warm things up enough to attract them. .001% of 1MW of power is still quite warm. (I have no idea how much switchgear leaks but i know they are warm even in winter outdoors).
And, yeah, the rest of the writeup is also an amalgamation of some panic-inducing experiences in my life.
https://x.com/visakanv/status/1678745111411212290