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Cool. Legit target. Traffic with the military and get bombed.
Datacentres have been potential targets for years. I remember some analysis from early in the war on Ukraine about targets in Western countries. Datacentres are vitally important for the economy, because of the businesses which are actually hosted there but also because of the infrastructure which supports other businesses.
Nowadays it seems like everyone thinks data centres are just running ChatGPT, but that is very stupid. This thread is hosted on lemmy.world’s servers in one of hetzner’s datacentres. OP’s account is on feddit.org in a datacentre in Vienna.
Your country’s banking system probably relies on datacentres. Your supermarkets probably rely on datacentres to get deliveries into stores. All your broadcast/streaming entertainment uses datacentres.
Network Engineer here with work on data centers.
Lets fucking go
I hope you work from home
Dude carrys his wrench around the data center tightening nuts and bolts for improved performance.
They are worth billions of dollars in hardware and are at the center of propaganda. No brainer.
In previous wars (and coups and other military interventions) the communication infrastructure has always been a target.
Phone systems and broadcasters have always been aware that they’re among the first things an attacking enemy would target.
It’s not really about propaganda, but economic damage. If you destroy enough datacentres, you’ll destroy a country’s economy.
Very little negative impact on the average person, low staff numbers, frees up water and electricity for the people. Personally, I can’t think of a better target.
Where do you think the internet exists? Where do you think Lemmy exists?
Where do you think Lemmy exists?
Hosted in a bunch of random linux enthusiasts’ home labs.
What percentage do you think accounts for that? Sure, some instances, but the largest absolutely are indatacenters.
But it’s a distraction. You ready to grow your own food? Immediately? Because losing datacenters means losing credit/debit cards. No cash because banks can’t connect to each other. No deliveries to stores. Society would literally fucking collapse.
But all these fucking idiots can do is ignorantly chant “destory all datacenters” because they don’t fucking know what they’re talking about.
slrpnk dot net: someones basement https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/server-hosting
lemmy dot world: hetzner https://support.lemmy.world/donate/
that slrpnk.net one is clearly describing something larger than a basement operation.
Do… you not realize that Hetzner is one of the larger server providers in existence? They have multiple datacenters because of all the servers - in multiple countries.
wooossshh yep and thus you would be the one in this discussion to disappear. The rest of us will continue just fine on other communities.
It’s never a good idea to choose the largest instance in the fediverse.
Because of Russian datacenter? Maybe lemmy. Ml…
Idiots keep saying “destroy all datacenters” and then comments like yours not keeping up with any sense of context.
Maybe one day we’ll destroy them all, then we can finally go outside again.
You can choose to stop using the internet at any time.
