We need more distribution for the sake of redundancy. Less large data centres and hyper scalers, more servers in a back office somewhere.
The internet itself is less of a problem. It’s where most of the traffic goes that is the problem.
We need more distribution for the sake of redundancy. Less large data centres and hyper scalers, more servers in a back office somewhere.
The internet itself is less of a problem. It’s where most of the traffic goes that is the problem.
It's much easier to destroy the power generation for those data centers than the center itself, and power generation is much less redundant and more easily impacted. It can be highly visible if you are only hitting a few targets, but the actual impact ends up being pretty low.
We wish, but that might not be true. Last year a South Korean government data center burned down and some data was lost forever with it. A few days ago, Ukraine attacked Yandex data centers (3 of them I think?) and some services stopped working, one of them a bank, so people can't get to their money, and it's not certain they will in the future.
Power generation generally seems to be much more redundant in that war. In part because Ukraine connects to the EU power grid and Russia itself has a huge grid. Sure for a small island country the situation would be different.