Palo Alto Power Outage Affects Up To 240 Startups

The tragic plane crash which killed three Tesla employees flying out of the Palo Alto airport at approximately 8 AM this morning also took out the city's power. The accident has left over 28,000 Palo Alto residents and businesses without power in the heart of Silicon Valley. According to the data in CrunchBase , up to 240 of these 28,000 customers are local startups, VC firms and other companies which include the likes of Facebook , Socialtext, Tapulous , and VMWare . (The TechCrunch office is also out of power). The interactive map below will give you an idea of who else is affected by the outage.