[anthony_r]

Indeed. People do not realize just how advanced the reliability infrastructure of those services is. Things like diesel power generators have been baked into cloud datacenters for what, a decade now? Probably longer. Show me your alternative power source when the power goes out (and power does disappear, everywhere, eventually).

[iso1210]

Diesel generators have been baked into my on prem equipment room for at least 40 years

For you average person working in an average office if the power goes out you're not going to be working anyway, so it doesn't matter if your server is offline too.