"The potential is high for cost overruns, regulatory problems, outage issues, competing water needs in the state, drought situations, radioactive waste management issues and a range of ratepayer issues," the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, an advocacy group, said in a filing with the Georgia Public Service Commission.
A number of users and Google now report that Gmail for Google Apps, as well as Google Drive, Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations and the Admin control panel/API are currently experiencing service disruption or outage issues for some users.
The ongoing power outage issues are a symptom of Puerto Rico's decade-long economic crisis.
The company responded to the outage, issuing a statement saying, "Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces.
We've received word from the nation's four major carriers on the extent of the service outages and issues.
While outages and issues can plague any online service from time to time, when a smaller company is bought up by a larger one there's always concern that it will no longer get the time, attention, and developer resources it deserves.
CenturyLink did not sy what caused the outage beyond an issue with a "network element," but said around 11am ET on Friday that the company said that it was "seeing good progress, but our service restoration work is not complete".
Such strategies can lead to avoidance of outage due to issues such as database deadlock, data loss, or network failure.
