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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The servers were not actually secured in the truck properly, so another scenario would have been the damage and destruction of some or all of them.

Plus, yes, theft. And it's not just proprietary data, it was also personal and financial data for users and advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I imagine thousands of pounds of unsecured load would be potentially dangerous for the driver and all other drivers on the road too.