When data centres become targets of war

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.

For most of the internet’s life, nobody seriously thought about hitting a data centre.