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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something rose to worry about: Data centers in Northern Virginia could make those of us that live nearby vulnerable to terrorist attacks or other disasters. Iranian drones damaged three Amazon data centers: two in the UAE and one in Bahrain.

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry’s vulnerability to physical disasters
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-bahrain-71066b0a822c4cfd88b61e3fe79af917[/quote]

I'm in the industry. Indeed Ashburn is within the "blast radius" of DC, and that's why companies set up secondary locations outside of it. Other parts of VA (Richmond, Harrisonsburg) used to be popular back when there was still a need to have the customer's IT staff drive out and service their equipment. Now it's more likely the cloud infra is owned by the operator, so less of a need to visit and they are spread even further out.

That said, if the enemy can get their drones to Ashburn, they might as well instead hit high-profile political targets in DC itself. It'll barely make the news if a datacenter in Ashburn powering your Netflix is hit, since Netflix has redundancy and they'll just flip to serving your latest episode of reality TV from one of their other datacenters.
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