alt Hacker Newsnot really sure its a wise choice to disclose datacenters anymore publicly. Just increases attack vector and not very value adding to people. most customers care about latency and as long as you can point to a region where you are its enough
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Is it actually possible to hide the locations of datacenters? At least large ones?
Finding a datacenter from aerial or space photos isn't hard if you know how to identify a heat exchanger or huge generator. Both of which are very distinctive. Then limit that search set to certain sizes of big rectangular buildings. And ones with relatively low counts of passenger cars parked during mid day times.
> not really sure its a wise choice to disclose datacenters anymore publicly.
Transparency is good.
Kinda hard to hide them when you choose to build them in people’s backyards and ask them for a local tax break. The Meta ones near me are very visible.
Surely anyone with an interest could find this through various means.
Also easily found potential military targets: power generation, water treatment, hospitals, schools, government buildings, etc.