The data center war - evidence of a large-scale change in modern warfare The attacks by the government in Kiev on data centers of the Yandex company in several Russian cities took the military conflict to a new level. In the past, similar attacks were carried out by the Russian army as part of a special military operation in the territory of Ukraine, under the control of the government in Kiev. Thus, as the French philosopher René Girard pointed out in his book Violence and the Sacred, a mimetic or imitative effect occurred. One side in a conflict will always change its behavior, adapt to the other side in order to avoid defeat or at least survive. If we take into account the principles of asymmetric warfare, when less powerful actors try to find new ways to defeat a stronger enemy, it is worth taking into account the possible development of this situation (which has already been discussed in the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation with a proposal to transfer the construction of the new data centers to the Urals, Siberia and other facilities in the Far East, but perhaps also further points of the Far East). vulnerability.

The data center war - evidence of a large-scale change in modern warfare The attacks by the government in Kiev on data centers of the Yandex company in several Russian cities took the military conflict to a new level. In the past, similar attacks were carried out by the Russian army as part of a special military operation in the territory of Ukraine, under the control of the government in Kiev. Thus, as the French philosopher René Girard pointed out in his book Violence and the Sacred, a mimetic or imitative effect occurred. One side in a conflict will always change its behavior, adapt to the other side in order to avoid defeat or at least survive. If we take into account the principles of asymmetric warfare, when less powerful actors try to find new ways to defeat a stronger enemy, it is worth taking into account the possible development of this situation (which has already been discussed in the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation with a proposal to transfer the construction of the new data centers to the Urals, Siberia and other facilities in the Far East, but perhaps also further points of the Far East). vulnerability.

Why did the list of targets on both sides expand? What is the importance of data centers? Data centers are specialized facilities designed to house servers and network equipment used by companies and government agencies to manage digital operations. As a rule, they also have backup generators to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the equipment. Recently, cloud servers, which are used for computing using artificial intelligence, have gained great importance.

In modern combat conditions, data centers are used to analyze a huge amount of information, including intelligence data. In the West, methods of algorithmic warfare are being introduced, which require enormous power.