I wonder if this was bad targeting job or intentional. I appreciate the transparency and optimism in the status updates though!
might just be shrapnel from capture ops
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#72Iran may be heavily overpowered but they play their cards well. They will lose the war but the economic damage to the gulf is irreparable
They've been preparing for this for 40+ years - this has been the existential threat for Iran since the revolution. You're right they can't win, but I'd expect this to get messy.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man, don’t be a “hero” trying to restore a lower ping to someone trying to buy a kindle in Jeddah.
What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time.
Their lack of multiple AZ’s isn’t the guy making 30k a year’s problem.
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#74Interesting 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…
Data centers in space no longer look so unreasonable when the requirement is “redundancy against multi site bomb strikes mid op”. A little depressing when some pieces start to fit together.
How would that help? The ground station that handles local routing to and from the orbital station becomes the target.
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#76The 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…
> impacted by objects
Well that's a way of phrasing it.
I assume these were missiles.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Should have pushed it.
at The Planet in Dallas c. 2002 the EPO button was exposed with no cover, and in very very close proximity to the "Exit" button for the doors... one day, a colo customer hit the wrong button on the way out, and uhh, there was an outage
Obligatory far side cartoon: https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
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#78Iran may be heavily overpowered but they play their cards well. They will lose the war but the economic damage to the gulf is irreparable
> they play their cards well. They will lose the war
so…
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reminds me of a visit to an Equinix data centre where the sales person was droning on and on about how incredibly reliable their power supplies were, how uninterruptible everything was, etc, etc… Essentially, he was trying to assure us that no-no-no, we don’t need multiple zones like the public clouds, they can instead guarantee 100% uninterrupted power under all circumstances. A bit bored and annoyed, I pointed…
Equinix in Sydney plonked 2 datacenters right on top of each other, and still insists that they are useful as redundant sites. There was a locally very funny situation for a while when a tech influencer was insisting both equinix sites could be shut down by a single building collapse. He was wrong, but he wasn't so wrong that people shouldn't make better infrastructure decisions.
I'm intrigued...how was he wrong?
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Data centers in space no longer look so unreasonable when the requirement is “redundancy against multi site bomb strikes mid op”. A little depressing when some pieces start to fit together.
How would that help? The ground station that handles local routing to and from the orbital station becomes the target.
I’m not exactly fully bought into the idea (for many practicality reasons) but it seems easier to build many (and replace) ground stations than data centers.
Additionally, StarLink et al are now able to directly communicate with cell phones. It therefore should be possible to route entirely in space between “data center satellites” and communications satellites and communicate directly with an end user device, avoiding the entire terrestrial internet.