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To Inflict Economic Pain, Russia and Ukraine Strike at Data Centers
The disruptions to daily life and business after the strikes on data centers have varied in Russia and Ukraine, said Vili Lehdonvirta, a technology policy professor at Finland’s Aalto University.
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UAE views Trump as key partner in push to become AI powerhouse
The UAE needs American chips, professor Lehdonvirta said, while for the U.S., stepping back would mean potentially ceding ground to China.
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Why data centers are moving beyond Europe’s biggest hubs
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta commented on why data centers are moving to Nordics on CNBC documentary.
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‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower
“If that’s the case then from now on we might perhaps see operators of prominent datacentres like AWS [Amazon Web Services] investing in air defence, similar to how shipping operators armed up against pirates,” Lehdonvirta said.
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Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain
Vili Lehdonvirta, professor of technology policy at Aalto University, told BBC News it appeared to be the first time such cloud infrastructure had been “knocked down by military action”
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The US turns back to nuclear power
Vili Lehdonvirta, professor of technology policy at Aalto University, Finland, points out that ‘from a military perspective, tech giants and their data centres support governments by storing and using AI to process vast amounts of information
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford