[mikewarot]

It the power generating world, this is called a Black Start condition, and plans exist to handle it. Given the nature of the "profit uber alles" atmosphere of the previous management, it's not really surprising that this is the case.

They should at least give everyone in the core engineering staff a burner phone and a printed (on paper, laminated) list of all the others, for use ONLY in the event of a blackout. Also perhaps, they should install a Starlink terminal for each data center, unconnected to all the other networking, with a stack of USB sticks for copying boot code?