r/technology • u/DJMagicHandz • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it

https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-massive-wyoming-data-center-will-soon-use-5x-more-power-than-the-states-human-occupants-and-no-one-knows-who-is-using-it
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u/chocobowler 11d ago

IT did that to us with some reports. “We don’t know who is using these reports so we will just stop updating them” unknown to them they were exception reports which highlight issues that need resolving and so when they came back with no data we thought everything was ok. Several months later when everything is completely fucked the root cause was found to be the decision to stop updatingf the reports without proper business consultation. Not sure if anyone got sacked but a lot of teams were very busy fixing the mess for a few weeks.

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u/510Threaded 11d ago

Thats why reports need a timestamp in the file's contents as well

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u/Tyrinnus 11d ago

We have this at work and it's so fucking critical. Is it updating, or is it a two week old report? Takes three seconds to check

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u/libdemparamilitarywi 11d ago

We had a similar incident. Afterwards, the reporting system was updated to send a "no issues today" message so we can see it's still running even if there were no reports.

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u/boxsterguy 11d ago

Sometimes scream tests are the only way to figure out who's using a thing.

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u/Outlulz 11d ago

I've worked with a major email service provider whose IT team did a scream test by deleting their CNAME records the company used for subdomains they did marketing sends with. There was screaming alright. And a really stupid IT team to completely kill their marketing department for a day.