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CrzyLngPwdyesterday at 7:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

They really should be building such things deep underground, at least to offer some basic protection against the various adversaries.

I assume we do too...we do right?


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yorwbayesterday at 8:02 PM

Mao tried picking industrial locations for survivability in case of war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Front_(China) Turns out that places that are hard to reach for the enemy are also hard to reach in peacetime, so the project was ultimately abandoned.

missedthecueyesterday at 8:07 PM

MAD is far too intact with China to bomb random infrastructure with reckless abandon.

FpUseryesterday at 7:58 PM

Why? I think any attack on China, Russia, India by major power will quickly escalate to nuclear. At this stage everyone will have much bigger problem than worry about datacenters.

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