[groby_b]

Welcome to a world were engineers aren't paid to copy code from Stack Overflow, but to make actual judgment calls.

What's the chance of the grid going down? What's the cost of it? Is the expected value significantly higher than a power generator? Congrats, you just bought a power generator.

Backbone down would cause you huge financial losses? Well, whaddaya say, let's build more backbone.[1]

Any redundancy that costs significantly less than the losses it mitigates will be built. The only reason we're not seeing a private NATO yet is that it costs more than pretty much any company makes. But 5,000 people security forces? Damn skippy those exist[2]

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/building-... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-off-duty-police-off...