I think fighting Israel is kind of a glimpse into what trying to fight a malevolent AGI will be like.
Expect to lose in highly surprising ways.
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I don't know, driving a big truck into AWS' us-east-1 power supply section sounds more than enough to take down internet for a while.
ITT: we've never spent time around ashburn va data centers.
most have big heavy barriers and multiple bollards and fences. some of the reston va data centers have big glorious planters out front and weird angles to walk up to the mantrap -- to prevent trucks from driving through. the generators usually have some sort of fence or bollards, and most are on multiple power sources from the local and airport grids.
source: used to manage nova data centers and did plenty of attack surface mapping. the truck-through-front-door approach is consistently considered.
Of course, but that's the point. Actual AGI wouldn't need to limit itself pointlessly in ways that would make it obvious to every internet rando how to hit it. Just as you cannot kill an intelligence agency with a single strike, it could distribute itself over many secret locations.
I would hope that data centre has multiple power supplies from multiple locations - as well as UPS and on site generators, certainly mine do.
However given AWS is so complex (which is required because they want to be a gatekeeping platform) leading the uptime to struggle to match a decent home setup, I'm not sure. I'm sure there's no 6 figure bonus for checking the generators are working, but a rounded corner on a button on an admin page?