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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
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Africa’s digital infrastructure gap demands further attention
“Grid stability and also the stability of the policy environment are very important factors in data centre location decisions,” says Vili Lehdonvirta, professor of technology policy at Finland’s Aalto University.
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AWS outage: Are we relying too much on US big tech?
Vili Lehdonvirta, professor of technology policy at Aalto University in Finland, told the BBC that the sector, at its core, is “driven by economies of scale.”
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Amazon battles to fix web services
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta commented on the recent AWS outages on Tonight with Andrew Marr
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford