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“Wonder how all the tech companies in SCC are dealing with this?”

“big commercial customers, like a tech headquarters ... tend to be located closer to the bulk transmission system [and] the high-voltage lines, which are much less impacted by this outage.” ““The lines in the South Bay where the tech headquarters are, are [surrounded by] wide open space — there’s basically no vegetation. “

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On the outage map below, the companies are located in the white area around the bay. They are not up in the hills, on high ridges, in forests, or over at the coast and are therefore shielded from the outages (or so it appears). A lot of the residential areas are not in the outage zones, either. We are right at the edge of an outage zone, so keeping our fingers crossed.

The outages are being planned to cut power to transmission lines that are subject to sparking in high winds. Major transmission lines run up the spine of the peninsula, roughly the Northeast edge of the biggest blue splotch over the peninsula.