If your aim is to do as much damage as possible with your missile or drone, a data center is a solid choice of target.
It’s hard to mourn for them.
Datacenters are not just for AI.
This is potentially worse than you’d immediately think. Literally everything that exists in “the cloud” is in a datacenter and is not exclusively AI. Remember when AWS went down and half the internet went down with it? Now imagine the datacenters actually got destroyed and it wasn’t just a software bug. Imagine if the datacenters went down for your bank account or healthcare provider. Sure this is only happening in the Middle East at the moment, but as we’ve been learning more and more these days, if it can happen “over there” it can happen here too. Wherever “here” may be, this can affect you.
ETA: Added some words.
Decentralize all the things!
Maybe I got my history wrong, but that earlier philosophy of the Internet simply being a “web” of a bunch of interconnected computers/nodes felt like it was way more resilient.
Data centers certainly still have their use, for storage and CDNs and whatnot, but I feel that the corporations’ usual lust for monopoly probably overcentralized our infrastructure, annnnd here we are where if anything happens to AWS or Azure or whatever, nobody can connect to anything.
Corporate enterprise controlled networks are super lame.
Computer hardware prices go brrrrrrr
Damn if the data centers get blown up how will I make shitty pictures of dogs wearing hats?
MS Paint
Good.
