Originally Posted by
BetterByBoat
Why is everyone being so quick to accept the official line? A power supply failure taking down multiple systems across multiple data centers. Possible but it wouldn't be at the top of my list of likely explanations.
I can see how a "power failure" in a specific subsystem, the consequences of which were neither fully thought through (or were ignored), the response to which was mishandled, could rapidly spiral out of control. It's probably at this point that having outsourced IT half a world away really began to bite...