Massive SF Power Outage
Filed under: Industry
SimCity: “your city is experiencing brownouts, build another power plant”
The entire South of Market (SOMA) area of San Francisco is currently experiencing repeated power outages which began shortly before 2pm. This is the tech hub of SF, and a number of high-traffic websites are completely off the grid currently, including 365Main (a major colo), Craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, and SixApart (Movable Type, Typepad, LiveJournal, Vox, etc).
InfoWorld’s building near South Park is currently down as well, but our website, hosted at Hosting.com, formerly Verio, on 3rd is still up and running as of 3pm.
Details on SFGate
Apparently 20,000+ in SF are currently without power. Glad I worked from home (San Mateo) today. =) Just hope the power comes back on before we have to start shutting down servers for heat reasons. And if you see InfoWorld drop off the ‘net you’ll know why….