Data Center Watch sounds like a group keeping an eye on the threat of data centres. It’s actually the opposite — it’s an AI industry astroturf effort to try to make policy makers worry about threat…
    • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 days ago

      In my personal and professional opinion, most datacenter outages are caused by animals disturbing fiber or power lines. Consider campaigning for rewilding instead; it’s legal and statistically might be more effective.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Think just blocking off the air vents would also work. Same thing with billionaire bunkers, block the airvents, weld the doors shut.

      • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Unlike a bunker, a datacenter’s ventilation consists of two relatively tall wind towers, one for intake and one for exhaust, which are out of reach. The intake vents are heavily grilled and shaped, so throwing anything into the vents is unlikely to work either. However, this ventilation must be air-conditioned in order to effectively cool the warehouse, and that’s done by spraying potable fresh water into the vent and strategically reclaiming it to prevent cloud formation.

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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          6 days ago

          politely: while I understand the impulse behind this discursive angle, it’s probably not the greatest idea to have it here

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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            6 days ago

            Yeah, I was just trying to make a joke about how explosives are overkill (and point out that the billionare bunkers are prob not as secure as they would hope (still mad about them building bunkers instead of you know doing anything positive)), not really trying to make a real plan to stop them.

            And tbh, we know what to do with malicious datacenters, esp if they are in bunkers, the Dutch/German police has gone after a few of them. The trick is to wait till their MDMA lab catches fire, and then you arrest them.