Power Outage at Stanford University

From the NBC news: Stanford University cancelled summer session classes Wednesday following ongoing power outages in the area.<p>According to the university, the power outages were a consequence of the Edgewood Fire burning in San Mateo County.<p>&quot;Due to yesterday’s fire in the Emerald Hills area, the main Stanford campus lost the power supplied by PG&amp;E’s main transmission line to the campus. PG&amp;E is providing a limited supply of power through a secondary line, but it falls far short of the normal needs of the campus,&quot; the university said in a statement.<p>&quot;This limited supply is being used to maintain cooling for the hospital and other critical infrastructure on campus.

Am a Stanford PhD Student, can confirm this is kind of a big deal. At 2 30 yesterday I was in the middle of a zoom call in the CS building, and suddenly the lights went off (except emergency lights)and wifi died. I walked 25 over to my place on campus, and likewise no power or wifi. Some common spaces do have light via backup gas powered generators, though.<p>Pretty crazy it&#x27;s already been 24 hours and it might go on for days, and hard not to feel this is a portent of more such disruptions to come as summers will keep getting higher and higher peak temperatures over the coming decades...

Stanford says it has been on &quot;stage 4c chilled water curtailment&quot; since yesterday afternoon. Stage 4c chilled water users are characterized as [0]:<p>&gt;Building spaces with the following characteristics: Significant safety concern, Non reproducible, reproducible (long duration), Non recoverable, Laser Labs and Wet Labs, MRI, High dollar, Long Duration, Campus Data Center&#x2F;ECH.<p>That sounds bad.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbre.stanford.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;lbre-production&#x2F;files&#x2F;stanford_chilled_water_curtailment_guide_june21_update.docx.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbre.stanford.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;lbre-production&#x2F;files&#x2F;stanfo...</a>

Oh, one of the leading academic institutions of the leading industry nation of the world has no electricity?<p>A problem with sustainability possibly? On various levels I&#x27;d say.<p>The Roman Empire fell and history will repeat itself. Not necessarily during our lifetime, but good news from the US seem to have become rare during the last 10-20 years.

why was this flagged? come on, someone is trying to mess with me.

Nothing works. Seems someone hacked the system