Comment by time0ut
4 hours ago
Some data centers are more valuable as targets than others. For example, those comprising us-gov-east-1 and us-gov-west-1 or, god forbid, us-east-1. I don’t expect it is a difficult task to find them and other critical infrastructure for a state, but probably more involved than popping open google maps.
I've always wondered what "us-east-1" is, presumably it's more than just 1 building
That's a region. It's not only many buildings, it's many zones, each of which are many datacenters. A region is just a virtual partition for their services. A zone is a fault domain for their services, and a single zone is met by many datacenters, each of which can have many buildings. Or at the least, I know of at least one datacenter which has multiple buildings, that is within one zone that has multiple datacenters, that is within one region that has multiple zones.
The US government's security priority should be moving critical us-east-1 services into Cheyenne Mountain.
Probably cheaper to just take over 33 Thomas Street [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
That is not safe in the same way.
That is way more of a worse target than the existing us-east-1.