We have this already in Ukraine: https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/thirty-companies-have-already-joi...

Unironically could be a legit business model.

Not just for datacenters either - warehouses, refineries, power stations, you could sell to anybody with a building full of expensive stuff.

MTCR, ITAR, EAR, NFA ...

The US State Department will throw everything at you if you dare tried to build or possess your own guided guns and rockets, even if you were not from or in the US - because there was a US ally that exported a near-orbital solid motor sounding rocket to a Balkan nation with full factory setup and manufacturing training services without asking anybody in particular, which resulted in the recipient nation achieving prototype production and successful live fire tests of an indigenous surface to air missile system comparable to Soviet S-75 strategic SAM that was eventually selected.

If it weren't for those pile of laws and leverages... building a SAM was doable since 1950s.

The genie is out of the bottle, over the next 100 years this is a real problem US, China, and Europe will face.

Though someone like Amazon will have to calculate, is the 50-year cost of protecting all facilities less than the 50-year cost of rebuilding the ones that are destroyed?

There surely is a point where it's cheaper and safer to bury them underground.

I'd invest in digging equipment for the next war.

Sounds like Snow Crash becoming slowly a reality.

I saw a video the other day advertising AI-powered a anti-air/drone gun. Seems to be part of a defense trade show, but also seemed to indicate that it was available to certain "qualified" citizens, but I'm not sure what that means exactly

Releasing drone swarms wrapping in chaff with IR lamps or laser diodes to account for different guidance methods. They cluster around predicted trajectory. Could be more cost effective than a Patriot battery

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just build a fence around the building? They are cheap and easily repaired.

I'm extremely surprised that isn't already a thing. I'm similarly surprised that all the datacenters which get press for the negative impact on the surrounding communities have remained untouched.

I look forward to anthropic drone swarms defending against AWS mounted infantry and OpenAI cruise drones. SpaceX is at war with Pepsi. SpaceX had always been at war with Pepsi.

You could do a ghaza and park human shields over military relevant infrastructure? Introducing Host.Age housing the only housing with free heating, free warn water and free leftover tokens .

Russian companies have had mercenaries of different kinds for some time now. Im sure Redut has anti air batteries.

Russia recently ordered corporations to start funding their own air defense.

You can always exhaust anti air defenses faster than they can defend if sufficiently prepared. Decoys help, just as you would with an intercontinental ballistic missile. Defender has to succeed 100% of the time, attacker needs to succeed once.

If your strategy assumes you can succeed against Iron Dome (which, I argue, is the state of the art for available air defense system), you should always be able to win as an attacker. Just have to test defenses ahead of time to understand level of effort required (munition capabilities, cadence, and quantity required, broadly speaking).

https://missilethreat.csis.org/countermeasures-penetration-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

New Startup idea - A railgun that launches dictators and fascists into the sun.

Wouldn't work. They would just send enough drones to overwhelm it or run it out of ammos or Russia out of money. This is the lesson we are learning the hard way in the Middle East.

The last thing we need is more Silicon Valley funded military startups. This means the ecosystem is now profiting off of war, suffering, war crimes, and human death. What we need is startups focusing on peace and diplomacy. That solves way more problems in a net positive manner.