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This is from a new biography coming out.

Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved.

Because servers can explode if you disconnect them wrong.

The next day — Christmas Eve — Musk called in reinforcements. Ross Nordeen, who worked with his friend James at Tesla, drove from San Francisco. He stopped at the Apple Store in Union Square and spent $2,000 to buy out the entire stock of AirTags so the servers could be tracked on their journey, and then stopped at Home Depot, where he spent $2,500 on wrenches, bolt-cutters, headlamps, and the tools needed to unscrew the seismic bolts.

Steve Davis, a loyal Musk lieutenant, got someone to procure a semi truck and line up moving vans. Other enlistees arrived from SpaceX. The server racks were on wheels, so the team was able to disconnect four of them and roll them to the waiting truck. This showed that all fifty-two hundred or so could probably be moved within days. “The guys are kicking ass!” Musk exulted.

So they got 4 racks moved in I guess about a day or day and a half so that showed Musk that 5200 could be done in a couple of days.

Also he saved money by getting a moving company that was shady and had no expertise in moving servers.

Musk is a fucking dipshit.

I used to think Musk was a little smart and bombastic, but now I’m leaning towards all bombast and privilege.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon...ibextid=Zxz2cZ

Musk thinks himself a genius innovator because he figured out how to cut corners and waste his time personally moving servers as ceo of a company and of course ruin lots of his employees off time and Xmas in this case.

I think it’s because that’s about the level of problem he can solve.


Btw

Despite the area being pummeled by rain, they moved more than 700 of the racks in three days. The previous record at that facility had been moving 30 in a month.

There are 5200, musk said it would take a few days and they did a seventh of them in 3 days.

Also they didn’t wipe the servers like they were supposed to do that definitely saved time.

SMH.

For the next two months, X was destabilized. The lack of servers caused meltdowns, including when Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces for presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. “In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake,” Musk would admit in March 2023. “I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it.”

Lol