Maintenance in progress

electricity flickered for roughly ten minutes across the eastern half of the united states, from chicago to miami, with engineering analysis pointing at unprecedented data-center load in loudoun county, virginia. days earlier a routine maintenance failure took a microsoft azure region offline for five hours, disabling 27 services after safeguards designed to prevent exactly that failed. the compute buildout is now visibly straining the grid it depends on — the dependency runs both ways and both ends slipped in the same week.

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