It seems like yesterday, and, yet a lifetime ago that we as a technology industry had to deal with one of the greatest crises of recent times – the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is the most disruptive challenge of our generation. Just ask the CEOs of large enterprises who have been speaking about how hard they have been hit by the blackouts. Just ask the business leaders who fear for what the greater knock-on impact is across all sectors. Just ask the Reserve Bank governor who says almost a billion rand is lost every day in South Africa because of load shedding.
The Cloud has been the defining trend in technology for some years. Back in 2015, one of the worst years of load-shedding with 2003 hours of blackouts, there was already talk about how load-shedding was forcing more companies to not only migrate to the Cloud, but to take more of their operations there.
That way businesses can effectively pass the problem of load-shedding on to the provider, who has already invested in the infrastructure. The big players in the Cloud space have their redundant power and back-up systems, and in many cases have invested in renewable energy both to keep their costs down and limit the impact on the climate.
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