Even if you get the first line, they will have one or two more as backup. So don’t stop at the first one!
As a former tech employree, I wholeheartedly endorse this message!
I need explaining on this one
He’s suggesting that rural people near data centers can pull permits to find out where the fiber channel is for a data center and destroy it with a large piece of earth-digging equipment.
I don’t even think they need to pull permits. The backhoe will find it anyway.
Around here they won’t even do locates on fiber. They’ll just wait till the gas company digs through it and splice it back after instead of spending the time marking things.
Seems the backhoe is the most efficient way to locate fiber after all!
So it would be a public service to help locate it. Everybody wins.
My dad worked for a rural water utility in the 90s, and he said that at that time fiber was the worst thing they could accidentally dig through. That area didn’t have buried power cables, it was pretty easy to cap off a gas line if you accidentally nicked it, and any electrician could splice a telephone cable back together. But fiber was a pain, because the communications company had to send down a special tech to do the splice.
I wonder what has happened to invert that so dramatically.
The devices to splice fiber have become cheap and very easy. You can watch videos of fiber splicing with such devices and will be proficient with them in roughly ten minutes. It really has become this mundane.
Amazing how technology has improved, then!
A fucking mouse the size of a palm could theoretically fuck them over significantly if it unionized lol
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