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Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Turn off the servers

[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

X/Twitter has its own data centers, this is for physical equipment under X's control. They need to get a judgment (which the article indicates they're working on) before they can do anything. Presumably after months to years of litigation they can then repossess the servers, but then X would probably at the last minute pay the bill.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

legally, you can't. It's actually worse.

[–] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shutting down a service that hasn't been paid for seems as simple as getting the power turned off for not paying your electric bill. Why is it worse than not paying for services?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The company seems to be a hardware provider, not a service provider. Also, they wouldn't be able to resell these machines anyway as they were custom made specifically for Twitter before musk bought it. Without a court order that would involve breaking and entering, and possible theft charges.

[–] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, ty. I misinterpreted the situation.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

They ship servers to customers, don't think they have access anymore.