What changed
A livestream on November 17, 2026, at 1 p.m. Eastern will examine how drone and missile strikes are damaging data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Jeremy Hsu will speak with Joseph Jarnecki, a senior research fellow at RUSI, about military targeting, physical defenses, wartime cloud resilience and government deployment choices.
Why it matters
Cloud infrastructure is usually treated as distant and redundant. The attacks described here make it look more like physical infrastructure: vulnerable to explosions, repairs and geography. The consequences have already reached millions of users, and some Amazon Web Services customer data was permanently deleted after strikes on data centers in the Middle East.
The harder question is not simply whether facilities can be protected. It is whether governments and cloud providers can justify the cost of hardening them, distributing services across safer locations and maintaining access during war. The discussion may help clarify whether “the cloud” still means resilience when the buildings underneath it become military targets.
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