"That's what my head feels like right now. "Do you know the head-explosion emoji?" he asked her. "I'm sorry, that was not my intention," she replied in a measured monotone. "So the rooms need to be upgraded." She started to give a lot more details, but after a minute, Musk interrupted. "It has different rack densities, different power densities," she said. The manager began to explain in detail some of the obstacles to relocating the servers to Portland. If you can't make that work, your resignation is accepted." He paused in silence for a few moments, then announced, "You have 90 days to do it. Over the years, Musk had been faced many times with a choice between what he thought was necessary and what others told him was possible. "Sacramento still needs to be around to serve traffic." "We can't get out safely before six to nine months," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. Another manager at the meeting said that couldn't be done right away.
Musk wanted to save that money by moving the servers to one of X's other facilities, in Portland, Oregon. The facility was costing X more than $100 million a year. "But this morning," the nervous manager told Musk, "they came back to us and said that plan was no longer on the table because, and these are their words, they don't think that we will be financially viable." The data-services company that housed one of X's server farms, located in Sacramento, had agreed to allow them some short-term extensions on their lease so they could begin to move out during 2023 in an orderly fashion. One of them tried to explain the problem. He was talking to two X infrastructure managers who had not dealt with him much before, and certainly not when he was in a foul mood. It was late at night on December 22, and the meeting in Musk's 10th floor conference room at X, formerly Twitter, had become tense.
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