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”
Impeach||GTFO 
@0xabad1dea tryin to get the insurance to pay.
mbpaz@DaveFlater @0xabad1dea insurance generally excludes acts of war from coverage.
Fallout from a ballistic missile seems quite an act of war and I doubt "hey there was no war declaration" is enough to get a payment from them.
Fallout from a ballistic missile seems quite an act of war and I doubt "hey there was no war declaration" is enough to get a payment from them.
fuzzyfuzzyfungus@mbpaz @DaveFlater @0xabad1dea I'd be genuinely curious to know how that will work. Ballistic missiles are definitely nation-state coded in ways that truck bombs are not; but my understanding is that insurance contracts usually distinguish between 'war' other violent damage by legal status rather than delivery method.
I also think I've been told that the "Malayan Emergency" was so classified in order to try to avoid war-related insurance conditions, so it has been tried before.
@fuzzyfuzzyfungus @DaveFlater @0xabad1dea Back in 2001 right after 9/11 there was immediate relief among insurance companies when Bush appeared on TV declaring "This is an act of war". Later on, there were clarifications and they had to backtrack, but for a while, that was all they needed to refuse any claim.