I can ' t believe I am defending these people BUT some of that animosity would be born out of past dealings with tech people . A lot of the problems would have been caused by the nontech project managers at ABS relying on the promises of IBM . Is this going to be a problem ? We are telling everyone to log on on August the 9 th Oh no no no , of course not . Of course , the issue could have been the reverse , IBM may have let them know there were going to be issues and the ABS didn ' t carecouldn ' t do anything about at the stage of the project they were in to . <| sep |> The total cost was ~$ 10 m I read somewhere . The cost of fuel is $ 3 . 4 gal on the main island , so more expensive on the small island . The generators were not new , and perhaps up for replacement , or alternatively be sold to subsidize the cost . So , you are out by over a factor of 2 .