This rural county government doesn’t have a lot of money for spare equipment — which means an emergency generator for the data center isn’t high on the county board’s list of priorities, according to a pilot fish on the scene.

“The IT department finally convinced the board to approve a backup generator for the computer room,” says fish.

“But it came with conditions. Since power emergencies are rare, they only approved a portable generator that will be shared with the road crews for their emergencies also. And while the IT director wants the generator stored in the IT parking lot, instead the road crew stores the generator at the Public Works yard, about 10 minutes away from the IT office.”

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