We're building the most critical infrastructure of our lifetimes. We're leaving the front door unlocked
There has never been a construction race like the one now under way in the data center industry.
AI's demand for compute is driving the largest and fastest infrastructure buildout the sector has ever seen, with hyperscalers and developers racing to bring capacity online faster than power grids, planning departments or supply chains can comfortably keep up.
In that scramble, enormous attention goes to the things visible on a spreadsheet: megawatts, cooling, chips, network and, rightly, cybersecurity.
The dimension that gets quietly deprioritized is the physical protection of the buildings themselves. It is the easiest thing to defer under deadline pressure, and the hardest to retrofit once the concrete is poured.
CEO of Acre Security.
A regulatory change in the United States is about to make that blind spot worse, and it is worth understanding even if you never operate a US federal facility, because of what it...
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