return2ozmaRobot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers
EightBitBloodNothing says billionaires are geniuses like building a giant multi billion dollar data center that can easily be taken out with a big enough EMP, and then choose to guard it with $300k robots that also can be taken out with that same EMP.
These people should not be allowed around money. Next they’re gonna hire Superman to guard their Kryptonite factory.
teyrnonAren’t EMP’s hard to induce though? Like there is a big one in a nuclear explosion, but outside of that, how can you make one without megawatts of power connected to a vehicle sized device?
Thankfully we have large vehicles that can drive around vehicle sized devices, and if you’re looking for ridiculous amounts of power, have I got something to tell you about datacenters…
vaultdweller013Small EMPs are relatively easy to generate and if memory serves there was at least one test in the 90s that was basically an EMP generator that could be shoved into a moving van suck off the grid and then go off. There has been relatively little open research on this subject for obvious reasons.
What is interesting, there was just an article, these scientists made this super magnet that was really small, like 1,000x stronger by size and using way less electricity to do t. I forget some rare earths it was made of. Just a week back maybe wish I read it closer. I wonder if that could make a bigger emp surge easier.
an EMP generator that could be shoved into a moving van
Oceans 11 bullshit.
Possibly but the 90s were peak BS R&D only really behind WW2 R&D, fucky caseless munitions, weird computer warfare experiments, early modern drones, Et cetera. Mind you the damned thing may have only worked once on a fluke but it’s well within believablity given everything else being fucked with at the time.
It’s not as hard as you’d think! 🙂 Mostly because of advances in HPM tech in the last couple years.
www.emsopedia.org/…/high-power-microwave-hpm/
Even 9 years ago, you could build one from an old microwave, that could likely cause a lot of issues near a data center:
High-Power Microwave (HPM) - EMSOPEDIA
High Power Microwave (HPM) systems aim to create an instant and intense energy field that can remotely overload or interrupt numerous electrical systems and high-tech microcircuits that are particularly sensitive to current peaks.These devices can be used to produce large-scale Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) effects, resulting in a widespread loss of electronics in absolute safety to human lives. The main use for these new technologies is to equip an anti-drone system with a Hard Kill defense, capable of guaranteeing the protective bubble even in the event of a possible attack by a swarm of drones.Another possible application of the technology is to enable the development of a C-IED system, capable of reclaim areas from IED threats during peacekeeping operations for the national or international crisis management, in emergency conditions where it becomes essential to safeguard both human lives that damage to infrastructure.