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Inside the $350 million missile silo that could become a data center
2026-04-12T15:01:11.154Z Description Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are joining survival camps like Fortitude Ranch that are built to survive catastrophes, or even World War III. As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans are joining survival camps like Fortitude Ranch that are built to survive catastrophes, or even World War III. Show more
When data centres become targets of war - Hindustan Times
Wars are not won the way they used to be. The battlefield has moved into the systems that run modern life. Data centres, submarine cables, satellite links, AI infrastructure. What played out in early 2026 was not a regional flare-up. It was the first confirmed act of a new kind of war, one where the most powerful economic assets a country holds are also the ones hardest to defend.Digital infraFor most of the internet's life, nobody seriously thought about hitting a data centre. These were commercial buildings. Civilian infrastructure. The unwritten rules of conflict treated them as off-limits, too economically entangled with the rest of the world to be worth targeting. That thinking is finished.In early March 2026, Iranian drones hit Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain. Banks went offline. Payment apps stopped working. Ride-hailing platforms seized up. It was the first time a country had physically attacked commercial hyperscale cloud infrastructure during wartime. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) then published a list of 18 American tech companies it intended to target next, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Nvidia, Oracle, Meta, Palantir, IBM, Cisco, and Boeing.Iran's stated reason was that these companies were providing the digital backbone for US and Israeli military operations. That claim had real substance. Amazon and Google had jointly won a $1.2 billion contract to supply Israel with core cloud infrastructure under Project Nimbus. Anthropic's Claude, running on AWS, was being used for US military intelligence work and battle simulations. Microsoft's Azure had hosted Israeli military intelligence data until access was cut in October 2025. The line between commercial tech provider and military infrastructure partner had quietly disappeared. When it went, so did any protection it offered. The cloud is not abstract and untouchable. It has an address, and that address can be hit by a drone.This is not a tactical shift. It is a doctrinal one. Twentieth century military thinking organised conflict around land, sea, and air. The twenty-first century added cyber and space. Now all five are fusing into a single battlespace where the old boundaries mean very little.Three things define modern warfare and separate it from every conflict before it. The first is the cost gap. A Shahed-136 drone costs around $20,000 to build and fly. Taking a cloud availability zone offline for 24-four hours costs the surrounding economy hundreds of...
The U.S. Air Force is building a new nuclear missile silo in Utah as ...
The new infrastructure will support advanced ballistic missiles designed to replace aging Cold War-era systems and strengthen long-term strategic defense ...
The US Air Force has officially begun building a prototype silo for its ...
Some are even deteriorating, and the larger Sentinel missile would be a tight fit. Instead, the Air Force is starting fresh. Ground was broken on March 27, 2026 ...
