Data Centers Are Now Prime Targets in Modern Wars

Military forces in Ukraine and Russia are attacking computer hubs, turning the internet into a frontline in the ongoing conflict.

Wars used to be fought with just tanks and planes. Now, they are fought online, too. Countries like Ukraine and Russia are starting to bomb data centers. Data centers are big buildings full of powerful computers. They store all the information that keeps the internet running. When these buildings get hit, websites go down and data vanishes. Recent attacks have shown just how fragile our digital world really is. In one case, a strike aimed at a Russian bot farm—a group of computers used to spread fake news—caused a massive outage. People assumed the bots were destroyed for good. But researc…