Adversaries target AI data centres after Iranian and Ukrainian strikes, FT opinion says

A Financial Times opinion piece by Chris Miller argues that AI data centres now need protection from drone and missile attacks, as adversaries target them like power plants and fuel depots.

The piece cites Iranian strikes that hit several AWS availability zones in Bahrain, leaving customer data permanently unrecoverable, according to the author.

It also cites Ukrainian drone strikes that halted a Yandex site housing two of the company's three AI training supercomputers. Outages spread to ride-hailing, payments and other businesses on Yandex Cloud, the piece says. The account comes from a single opinion column, not a news report.