Among other things, this will require planning server capacity to
take peak usage into consideration, IT maintenance, uptime guarantees, notifying users when server downtime is expected, regular backups, and planning server costs.
Not exact matches
According to Nest, powering air conditioners during
peak times accounts for just 1 percent of all energy
usage — but can often
take up the lion's share of an individual energy bill.
Now, this has been
taken to the extreme, where aggregators get small users to agree to cut back their
usage of electricity during
peak periods, or when there are unforeseen supply interruptions.