Are you implying that if America wanted to, we could wipe out Chinas 1818 data centers and they'd have a very hard time doing the same to ours? Heck, all they have to do is toss a few nukes over our country and wait for the EMPs to crash every center.
I've been inside the Facebook data building here in Iowa. Cell phone didn't work, guy I was there with explained the whole building is a Faraday cage. That it's protected well enough to survive an EMP. That was almost 10 years ago.
I'd put good money on anything newer being as well if not better protected.
The rest of the grid, sadly, is another story.
Want to see a neat party trick? Post a picture of the Facebook Data Center into Facebook. You can see it for about a day then it's gone. No one else can see it. Then you get a 3 day "warning " for some random picture you posted years before. I've done it 3 times back when I still used it.
Are you implying that if America wanted to, we could wipe out Chinas 1818 data centers and they'd have a very hard time doing the same to ours? Heck, all they have to do is toss a few nukes over our country and wait for the EMPs to crash every center.
I've been inside the Facebook data building here in Iowa. Cell phone didn't work, guy I was there with explained the whole building is a Faraday cage. That it's protected well enough to survive an EMP. That was almost 10 years ago.
I'd put good money on anything newer being as well if not better protected.
The rest of the grid, sadly, is another story.
Want to see a neat party trick? Post a picture of the Facebook Data Center into Facebook. You can see it for about a day then it's gone. No one else can see it. Then you get a 3 day "warning " for some random picture you posted years before. I've done it 3 times back when I still used it.