r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/DarkSkyKnight 18h ago

I think the real interesting thing is actually that data centers may now become legitimate military targets going forward. First in the Iran war, and now this.

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u/Graymarth 18h ago

Honestly this just shows how short-sighted the development of these data centers in heavily populated areas has been. Take the data centers here in the US as an example, the grok data center in Memphis was the one that told the military to blow up that girls school in Iran, now that data center in the middle of a major city is a military target that if we ever end up in a war that comes to the homefront will probably be one of the first places to get blown up alongside the innocent people having to live near the damn thing.

If they want these data centers doing work for the military they need to put them on freaking military bases or away from society period.

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u/L4zyLightning 5h ago

If a foreign military is ever actively bombing US cities you have about 30 seconds to say goodbye to your loved ones. A lot of fireworks are about to go off around the world