Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)

Post by riknos314 » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #40

Zeyka wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's so interesting. Are any of the US military (or other satellite state of the US) systems running in "normal" datacenters or do they have a few protected DoD datacenters in the US?

Found this relevant article: https://serverlift.com/blog/military-modular-data-centers/ (AWS Military Modular Data centers) I do think that though, atleast from the Anthropic decision prior, we know that Anthropic which was used by DoD should be on normal AWS datacenters. I am saying this because, Dod Threatened to force take the source code of Anthropic if they don't agree to aggregious demands so that means that th…

Post by fc417fc802 » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #26

p-o wrote: post #19

Interesting adjacent theory is how much are datacenters becoming military target to strike as part of disrupting initial defenses. It doesn't seem it was the case in this instance, but I could see this becoming a more important target in future. Seems like it should be somewhat easier to bomb 50 datacenters than it would be to hack and disrupt 1000s of different services. Again, this is just me thinking out loud on a…

> Seems like it should be somewhat easier to nuke 50 datacenters than it would be to hack and disrupt 1000s of different services. The bigger part of me seems that if we someone nukes 50 datacenters all at once or say all of Amazon's datacenters at once, then the data stored in there would simply be gone and given so many datacenters are located in Virginia,USA iirc or just so many companies being reliant on few data…

Post by subscribed » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #34

bgentry wrote: post #25

The important quote from the timeline: Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some additional information on the power issue in a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the…

> we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely this would require human intervention and I am a bit worried what if the strike can happen again and human lives might be lost. IIRC there have been cases in history where sometimes a same location is targeted across multiple days. Obviously, AWS might have local employees working in the region but would there be an evaluation of this threat itself within the…

Post by ineedasername » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC

p-o wrote: post #19

Interesting adjacent theory is how much are datacenters becoming military target to strike as part of disrupting initial defenses. It doesn't seem it was the case in this instance, but I could see this becoming a more important target in future. Seems like it should be somewhat easier to bomb 50 datacenters than it would be to hack and disrupt 1000s of different services. Again, this is just me thinking out loud on a…

Post by jbverschoor » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

throw475787 wrote: post #46

swiftcoder wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The more interesting question, is how many datacenters are just plonked next to a high-value military target? For infrastructure reasons, we plonk datacenters down next to airports big enough to fly major hardware into, and near where the big oceanic cables come ashore… and for strategic reasons those are also the perfect places to place military bases

Is there acrually some meaningful physical separation between military and civilian server deployments? We seem to be really bad at separating those two. For example Starlink is basically military infrastructure now, used to guide bombs.