Comment by rickdeckard

In other cases, yes. Not here.

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In Europe, the airspace above a property is not owned by the company owning the land.

It's owned, monitored and guarded by the local government. Missiles aiming at a data center would first penetrate the national airspace of the country, as well as unlicensed drones do. This is a violation of national airspace and a crime against the country.

Drones are still a weak spot of national security though, as we keep seeing all around the world. But governments in Europe have no doubt that it is their responsibility to secure their airspace, and there are EU-wide activities to fix that.

> "Basic physical security is already way above basic at ordinary datacenters in seemingly safe locations."

From all that is known, this incident is about vetted access control and having a sufficient secure perimeter around your facilities.

In both US and Europe, a data center is considered a critical infrastructure and needs to adhere to the maximum physical and digital security requirements, which is much more substantial than this.

In this case, again, two people apparently penetrated security and put equipment on fire.

This might as well be the warehouse of a supermarket. It's a gap in their security that this happened, not a lapse of the government.