📝Server Protection📝 How data centers became a military target worldwide Data centers are no longer just server warehouses: they now need to be protected like military facilities. Financial Times reports that when building AI infrastructure, blast-resistant concrete, electronic warfare systems, and air defense systems will soon be used. 🔻What else they write ▪️Strikes on data centers have become noticeably more frequent this year. AFU attacks on Russian data processing centers have caused disruptions in mobile payments and taxi services. ▪️Iran damaged facilities from Bahrain to the UAE, including major centers of American cloud companies. ▪️After Iranian strikes, the UAE is reviewing its AI strategy. Instead of one large complex, they now plan a network of data centers, with some facilities potentially going underground. 🖍As with dual-use goods, the line between military and civilian digital infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult to draw. And again, the US is at the forefront of regulating this sphere. They were the first to declare computing power an asset of national security. Others have only drawn practical conclusions from this. 🚩However, state control over data centers does not yet guarantee protection from drones. This applies to American cloud giants in the Persian Gulf, whom neither money nor allied guarantees saved. Because the problem is not who owns the facility, but that cheap weapons are now available to almost any side of a conflict. ❗️For Russia, this leads to a quite practical conclusion. The digital economy has become part of critical infrastructure, which means it needs to be protected the same way as energy and transport: through dispersal, redundancy, electronic warfare, and air defense. This is expensive. But a disruption in complex economic processes across the country costs even more. #Russia #USA #technology ✉️ MAX 💸Support us Original msg