abadideaJune 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
Tor Lillqvist@0xabad1dea Fun, but do we actually know that the missile hit the data centre? A missile might have hit a neighbouring building, and the explosion then caused some large bits of concrete or whatever to hit the data centre.
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Datacenters aren't usually built right next to other buildings (except other datacenters). I would more assume that it was literal debris from a fully- or partially-successful intercept. UAE does have Patriot missile batteries and the debris from an intercept has to go somewhere (and I'd assume that an actual/direct missile- or drone-strike would come with a different, more-significant status).
Datacenters aren't usually built right next to other buildings (except other datacenters). I would more assume that it was literal debris from a fully- or partially-successful intercept. UAE does have Patriot missile batteries and the debris from an intercept has to go somewhere (and I'd assume that an actual/direct missile- or drone-strike would come with a different, more-significant status).
@0xabad1dea Also, how do we know that it was a ballistic missile and not a drone?
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