[time0ut]

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.

[jdxcode]

I've always wondered what "us-east-1" is, presumably it's more than just 1 building

[arjie]

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.

[wglass]

Loudoun county in Virginia, near Washington-Dulles airport. Taxes on data centers built by AWS and other firms provide almost 40% of the county budget.

[jmalicki]

The US government's security priority should be moving critical us-east-1 services into Cheyenne Mountain.

[throwup238]

Probably cheaper to just take over 33 Thomas Street [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

[jmalicki]

That is not safe in the same way.

That is way more of a worse target than the existing us-east-1.