[liquidmetal]

+1

There can be hidden variables that the PID system failed to account for. Workload distribution over time, temperature at the time of day, heat leaking into the datacenter, etc. I'm not sure if a PID based controller would account for such things.

What remains to be seen, however, is whether these manipulations keep the machines working at similar efficiencies and if they fail at similar rates as before turning on the control system.