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Aren't the locations of most of the AWS data centers kept pretty private for reasons exactly like this?
by salmon 6y ago
Aren't the locations of most of the AWS data centers kept pretty private for reasons exactly like this?
- curryst 6y agoWikileaks leaked them in 2018, so the majority are known, I think. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publishes-list-aws-data-center-locations-colo-providers/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wikileaks-publish...
- Hamuko 6y agoFor what purpose?
- jordigh 6y agoI can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. Amazon, unlike say, Google, does not disclose their carbon emissions. Like at all. It is important to have this information public, for the sake of our planet. Amazon gets an F for disclosure, while Google is getting some A's: https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3Damazon&queries[name]=amazon https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3... https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bname%5D=alphabet https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bna... I assume the reason is that doing a GHG assessment gives a lot of information about the operations of your company, so Amazon would rather be secretive about its operations. Knowing the location of datacentres allows you to deduce what power grid they're attached to. Scope 2 emissions depend a lot on where the electricity is coming from, and they're likely the vast majority of Amazon's emissions due to the size of AWS. Their Scope 3 emissions due to deliveries might also be significant, but it's harder to be secretive about that.
- consumer451 6y ago> I can think of one valid purpose: GHG emissions. I can think of another purpose which is valid to some people: sowing chaos.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI don't think potential chaos sowers would have much difficulty finding the data centers themselves. All they'd need to do is to narrow the location to a town or several towns, go there, and start asking pizza delivery people for directions.
- unixhero 6y agoI'm sorry what?
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- slx26 6y agoWouldn't they be easy enough to triangulate quite precisely anyway?
- BrianOnHN 6y ago*Insert joke about Qs using trig*
- yowlingcat 6y ago* Insert riff about Qs using non-euclidean geometry and circular reasoning *
- tanseydavid 6y ago* Insert GPT-3 generated Q-style mystery clues in vomit-haiku-meter.
- JakeStone 6y agoI think I love you. Don't worry, there's a shot for that.
- gruez 6y agonetwork distance =/= physical distance
- TigeriusKirk 6y agoHow secret could they realistically be?
- rtkwe 6y agoPretty secret, it's easy to make shell companies to disguise who actually owns and operates the building. My job we have no external markings on our IT building so customers don't get confused and try to come manage their 401k there instead of our retail locations.