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Old Feb 5, 2017, 8:38 pm
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Originally Posted by vincentharris
Actually.....

GA Power had a press conference the next day confirming they didn't have any power disruption since DL was trying to throw them under the bus.

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https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL1N1AP0QT
Originally Posted by TheLifeOfA_NKCM
​​AFAIK both of these involved electrical systems in the data center. I think there was some spark or something from one of electrical systems that caused the outage last time. Tbh, though, absolutely no one at the time had any idea what was going on until a little after the fact. DL corrected themselves when they realized they were wrong though.

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the first outage was their LUW systems, not mainframe. And it was a spark like the Hindenburg was a spark. Haven't had an update on the second outage, but know it wasn't their mainframe systems.
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