Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list

In the AI era, data centers and the infrastructure that trains and hosts AI have become strategic targets for both kinetic and cyber operations — the report cites missile and drone strikes on cloud facilities, nation-state-linked supply-chain campaigns, and a destructive wipe at Stryker — and urges organizations to treat operational resilience as a board-level priority by hardening power, cooling, building management, remote access, segmentation, and by exercising degraded-operation scenarios.