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I really dislike Musk, but I find it hard to criticize this when it generally worked.
The platform formerly known as Twitter is still running, and there’s no more $100 million/year data center.
6-9 months would have meant $50-75 million dollars. I don’t know what the outages and re-engineering ended up costing them, but that’s a ton of money.
Looks like you’re the type the writer talks about at the end:
What risks, exactly? Twitter goes down? Proprietary Twitter data gets stolen in some server heist scenario?
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.
I imagine thousands of pounds of unsecured load would be potentially dangerous for the driver and all other drivers on the road too.