but but they said this is a cloud!
Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Arpa net
i do believe that was decommissioned in the late 80s
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#103The 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…
Impact assessment: yes.
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#104Amazon usually has 3 AVs per region, looks like there are surviving AVs but the system didn't switch over gracefully. I bet that was an interesting sev2 ticket!
I doubt that there is enough capacity to evict a full AV to another one.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Routing? Why route? the link at the point of comms is direct. There's no extra ground station, unless you mean the person/people doing things. But either they're communicating direct to a DC on the ground, or one in space, or wherever. Setup so that-- sure-- they can work and coordinate better if someone isn't dropping bombs on ground nodes but that all nodes have some independent capabilities as well.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most likely, those were debris from the interception of missiles flying overhead and being destroyed on their way to a military target. AFAIK, there have been no confirmed signs of civilian sites being targeted directly, and it would also be unlikely that actual missiles would cause so little damage that you could patch your datacenter up and get it ready to go within hours.
That's incorrect, there have been multiple hotels being attacked and recently oil facilities in SA
Can you please share sources?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's incorrect, there have been multiple hotels being attacked and recently oil facilities in SA
Can you please share sources?
refineries, gas fields - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-aramco-shuts-r...
dubai airport, residential buildings, hotels, ports - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/several-loud-blast...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/01/i...
Bahrain - https://bh.usembassy.gov/security-alert-update-5-u-s-embassy...
You can google for other targets in Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Cyprus and Kuwait
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, they are more aware of the customer demand for compute in the region.
Yes of course. But they also have to know that concentrated compute is an attractive target for marauding countries that decide on a whim to bomb you from outside.
I think you mean when the US and Israel decide to start an unprovoked war “on a whim”.
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#109> one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. God forbid we'd ever say that it was struck by a missile or a munition in an act of war.
Potential moon bear attack; we're waiting on satellite imagery to confirm it. https://youtu.be/pvjgIxuVdo4?t=96
The actual Whitest Kids You Know Youtube channel has been reuploading old skits with the title changed and maybe a single word audio dub as direct criticisms of this administration's horseshit.
Their version from 2 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3o-3pL79O4
It's insane. Jokes written 20 years ago work better today.
It's been extremely on point and it's sad how much criticism from the mid 2000s which was dismisses as "Not supporting America" was actually 100% on point and still fully valid and correct and prescient and on point 20 years later because the same exact old assholes are still in power and calling the shots and finally allowed to go weapons free on the geopolitical agenda's they've held for decades.
People didn't listen that the Bush Jr admin, who started middle east wars under fabricated pretenses and booted up the surveillance regime with the PATRIOT act and called war protests "Anti-american", was Fascist and they still aren't listening as a racist, sexist, rapist moron drives the US off the deep end and starts even more illegal and false wars and directs that same DHS Bush created to destroy the enemies of the state within.
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#110Interesting 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…
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
You sound like you know things, and I have questions! What are the chances that we see infrastructure move to less-developed-but-more-stable regions of the world? What even are the candidate locations that wouldn't be an absolute headache to set up? I'm thinking perhaps West Africa? Or South Africa if it can stabilize a bit? Maybe other coastal locations that have good-enough transportation hubs nearby?