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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)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can understand the pushback. Twitter employees work for years to transform a site that went down a lot (remember fail whale?) Into reliable well oiled machinery. Having new owner suddenly tell you to dismantle it all must've been awful.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That, I can understand.

But reforming a company is always ugly business. Best to get it done with quickly and efficiently.

A slow painful death like Yahoo also isn't in anyone's interest.