Ars Technica to host live discussion on drone strikes against data centers
Ars Technica will host a live conversation on November 17 about drone and missile strikes on data centers. RUSI researcher Joseph Jarnecki will be the guest.
The technology news site Ars Technica will hold a live online conversation titled "Drone attacks and data centers: New Risks for Big Tech" on November 17 at 1 pm Eastern Time (ET). The event will examine how resilient cloud services are to warfare, since drone and missile strikes this year have caused unprecedented damage to data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Why the topic matters
The strikes disrupted cloud services for millions of people, and some Amazon Web Services customer data was permanently deleted. The article's author describes this as a new concern not only for Big Tech companies but also for governments and anyone who relies on common digital services in daily life.
The guest
The guest is Joseph Jarnecki, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a UK defense and security think tank. He leads RUSI's work on how cloud services factor into national security and defense, as well as tech sovereignty efforts.
Jarnecki has researched extensively how Ukraine strengthened its cloud resilience with Western partners, even though it faced both cyberattacks and kinetic attacks at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. He has also explored what this means for the cloud adoption plans of NATO and European governments.
This year, Jarnecki has written about Iran's drone and missile strikes on Amazon data centers in the Middle East during the US-Israeli war with Iran, and the broader implications for governments and Big Tech. He has also commented on the effects of Russia and Ukraine exchanging strikes on each other's data centers.
