Cloudflare in particular can fuck off and stay fucked off.
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Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 4 weeks ago
I just want AWS, Azure, Google, & Cloudflare to go down at the same time.
And maybe stay down.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If a nation wants to go to war with the US … this is how they do it, they just shut down one, two or all of these systems down and watch the country go crazy. It wouldn’t destroy the country, just disrupt it enough to make them go nuts and then do more things to them in other ways.
It’s amazing when you think about, first the US invested in heavily defending and arming itself in the 60s, 70s and 80s … then it spent billions more in the 90s and 2000s to try to come up with ever more inventive ways to screw itself from the inside.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
No. Everyone always focuses on the flashy stuff like datacenters but the truth is that the most vulnerable, overtaxed, and underfunded weak-spot for the United States is the electric grid.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 4 weeks ago
Yup. Most of our core electrical infrastructure is over 100 years old now. And thanks to a combination of NIMBYism, profiteering, and the anti-nuclear brigades, we're not likely to see that change any time soon.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m pretty convinced that if we did have a complete grid failure, we would be able to complete a cold start.
Too many people would be pushing for their section to be started first so they could short the market first.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Doesn’t matter who wants want, the power company has contingency plans and those plans are what is happening.
SOURCE: Worked for Cox after a major ice storm smashed north-central Oklahoma flat. Lived Hurricane Ivan and saw their rollout priorities.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
The American dream
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
To be pedantic for a sec, the term is black start. Just cause I think it’s super dystopian sounding.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Note to self: Sabotage the US’ electric grid.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 4 weeks ago
Which in turn would take down the datacenters too, so same effect, just more severe
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Most data centers are backed up by generators.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I feel like you got it backwards. Letting them run is doing more damage than turning them off would.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 4 weeks ago
If the way someone goes to war with the US is by freeing us from the overly-centralized landlords of the Internet, maybe whoever they are isn't so bad.