The board is requiring that the OWG cut its budget from the 2024 proposal. Although we're still waiting to see what this means in terms of actual opex, capex and cash flow numbers, we already know that this will involve significant cuts. The OWG budget already had a cash flow about half of the previous two years budgets and we had already deferred as many capital expendutures as possible to bring the capex down by 75% over our 2023 request and by 80% of our 2022 request. This means there's nothing "optional" to trim and everything that can be deferred has been.
The only way to get any meaningful cuts to cash flow and opex is to go to operating a single primary site while maintaining current power usage or slightly higher.
Putting aside the technical details, this means loss of redundancy and cutting back some services. We would still maintain redundancy within a single site so if a single machine fails we don't have primary services go down. The savings given here are very rough as additional research a