In my experience, rodents tend to eat wiring, but foxes tend to eat rodents.
So it's actually probably really beneficial to have the foxes around, in terms of uptime
(Also this is a perfect addition to my scifi setting where advanced aliens treat humans the way humans are treating the foxes here)
See, this is biology and technology working together.
15,000 BC: agriculture invented, cats worshiped as food storage preservers.
2,000 AD: solar panels invented, foxes worshipped as cooper cable preserves.
Yeah but those are really rare, limited in number, and nowadays inaccessible because, y'know, Russia
I remember looking it up and a fox from that institute is like 5000€, no shipping included or any duties/permits