Makes sense but monitoring doesn't mean you have to have remote control of power.

"Utility has alerted us to an upcoming brown-out in a region impacting 40 stores. Cool everything down a few extra degrees in preparation."

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mrob 7 hours ago | parent [-]

A phone call from the HVAC company and physical thermostat dial (in a locked cabinet to prevent incompetent/malicious employees tampering with it) seems a safer solution.

	▲	ceejayoz 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some grocery stores - and this is probably far more common in France - have no staff overnight. I think the cost/benefit equation is gonna collapse in the era of AIs exploting vulnerabilities at scale, but it's not like there's zero theoretical benefit of this capability on its own.
	▲	pixl97 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And when it happens at 3 in the morning? And when those people are in a meeting 10 miles down the road? Take away the security aspect and centralized management is just so much easier and reliable. Humans suck at doing things they were supposed to.