A Massachusetts high school can’t figure out how to turn their lights off.
On Aug. 24, 2021, the lights were turned on at this Massachusetts high school. Nobody has been able to turn them off since. https://t.co/z2LTQu0au0
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) January 19, 2023
Their lighting system was integrated into a computer software system and that system failed back in 2021 so now the lights just stay on continuously.
Technology-LOL: “A Massachusetts high school has been lit up around the clock because the district can’t turn off the roughly 7,000 lights.
Since the lighting system software failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously.” pic.twitter.com/I4pwPOorvb— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 20, 2023
This story reinforces my argument about how there is too much unnecessary technology everywhere in the United States and in much of the West. There was no need to install a complex computer software system to control the lights for an entire building like this. Obviously nobody asked what would happen if the system failed when they poured tax money into it. Now the taxpayer has to pay much more for electricity because they can’t shut the lights off.
The phrase “keep it simple stupid” seems to be lost on too many people these days. We are going to see more and more systems fail because this. Especially as we have increasingly less competent people managing and maintaining all these unnecessarily complex systems.
