They're threatening us with a good time again

[nicelymanifest@mastodon.social]

@sleepfreeparent @pikesley If you want to strike for maximum effect then a chip fabrication building would be perfect. -they cost in excess of a billion dollars and the planet depends on chips made by these buildings.

Point here is that insane levels of reliance of ultra complex chips that only a few places and businesses can manufacture is super precarious.

[uplategeek@bitbang.social]

@pikesley they’ll be doing the world a favour, some of the horrific cabling work I’ve seen over the years.

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@NicelyManifest @sleepfreeparent that's the next stage, when China siezes Taiwan

[cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io]

@srtcd424 @pikesley It occurs to me that a resourceful nation state might even be able to ship a few of their beloved Shaheds all the way to us-east-1

[cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net]

@pikesley Port Washington's Mayor, here in Wisconsin, isn't worried: “I don’t worry about the safety or security of the city of Port Washington, because Data Centers, they get hit internally (their computers) not externally.“

Popular Programming in the age of SMARTpeople.

Meet Ted Neitzke, historian and mayor of Port Washington. If anyone would know a thing or two about the downfall of civilizations past, it would be a historian.

Folkified Poprageousness (cmthiede.vivaldi.net)

#Wisconsin #DataCenters

[bob_zim@infosec.exchange]

@glent @Hierarchy @pikesley Geothermal wells can sink ridiculous amounts of heat. Space is at a much greater premium. Carving a chunk out of the interior of a mountain is difficult.

Power feeds and network links are probably easier targets.

[zuthal@floofy.tech]

@pikesley finally, victimless war

[viralobscurity@mstdn.social]

@pikesley I'm unsurprisingly comfortable with the loss of a few data centres in the name of war

I'd accept 1,000 data centre losses over 1 school or hospital any day of the week

[lafnlab@tech.lgbt]

@Hierarchy @pikesley I work for a university in the Midwest US and around 15 years ago it built a datacenter capable of withstanding an F5 tornado. I think it's partly underground. This was back when "cloud computing" was the buzzword of choice.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@pikesley all that poor copper.

[purple@woof.tech]

@clintruin @pikesley

Hi! I know it might be difficult to understand what a datacenter actually hosts, but this is not just AI, they've been existing much longer!

Odds are, almost anything you do on the internet nowadays (yes really) requires something that's in a datacenter somewhere. No datacenters, no internet, that sucks!

War sucks in general, joking about loss of telecommunications or other war related casualties sucks

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@Purple @clintruin thanks for explaining this, I've only been a professional sysadmin for 25 years

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@pikesley Let's be creative with the bombing, too. Let's find where ... honey or something would do a ton of "harm" in a biodegradable way.

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@pikesley They probably are soft targets. Just look for the heat signature. Yikes.
But even fiber lines are now a vulnerability. Not a good time to have a sworn enemy.
Is our government protecting us? Or the billionaires/corporations who own them?