Given the context of what caused those power issues: - lack of maintenance (not non-existence of maintenance) for almost 2 decades - the electrification of more homes without bringing on additional capacity - poor/subpar management of the sole power producer

A year or so is fine because those issues have been resolved by: - a slower economy (I'm putting this here because we shot ourselves on the foot) - more generational power coming in - the rise of independent power-producers.

So there should be stability from a power generation perspective.

It's "long gone" because depending on which part of society you come from, you might have gone a few years without experiencing load-based power issues.

In general the power issues still exist once you step out of the suburbs or metros, but then again the DCs will likely be hosted there, or MS will enter into a power agreement that gives them preference over the rest of the average consumer.

I'm just glad that we'll have Azure DCs as a start, and hope Google and Amazon follow suit if MS succeeds.

I consider it long gone because a permanent solution was put in place. Any problem disappearing for over a year is considered long gone in any country. Not about setting a low bar. In fact, I have heard politicians claiming to have fixed problems less than 100 days after they were put into power.