This all assumes that "taking out" datacenters is a physical/hardware operation. When you widen the potential attack surface to include software vulnerabilitie

This all assumes that "taking out" datacenters is a physical/hardware operation. When you widen the potential attack surface to include software vulnerabilities, unauthorized access, process flaws and other "soft" vectors, a much wider--possibly coordinated--attack that is potentially far more crippling can be imagined.