Back in the early 2000’s I worked at Akamai for a while. Their worldwide CDN is built on clusters of servers physically located at thousands of datacenters around the world. They rely on the local staff to physically install it and do any on-site maintenance like replacing failed hard drives, etc. So Akamais remote management capabilities are quite sophisticated.

During my training one day I started poking around old tickets and found one that was a few years old and still open, but appeared to be abandoned. It started out with an automated alert that the systems at a small Midwest ISP had stopped responding, followed by a few updates from techs who tried to remotely access them with no luck. That was followed by comments that calls had been made to the ISP and voicemails left. The final note in the ticket stated that the entire datacenter had been destroyed by a tornado.

Add copper scavengers to the list

What irony... the climate they seek to ignore is the climate that will destroy them...

Vulnerable to fire you say?

Good thing they aren't really long-term "investments" in the first place then.

No shit. Flood or Flagerate just about anything and it'll stop working. Is this real journalism?

So there's hope...?

Good.

But how? Like where can I find the schematics to check what other kinds of "disasters" they are vulnerable to?