A year or 2 ago, some assholes were shooting substation in the hopes of causing major damage. Im sure data centers got a smaller version of this

Those 5 green blocks are radiators. One of those assholes shot and damage a few of the radiators at a critical substation. It caused power loss to about 7k people including schools and a hospital. The news story said they had to truck in temp substations until they got the new parts to repair. ETA was 6 months to a year.

Sorry, kinda went on a tangent. Good luck with your AI recipe that uses 5 gallons of salt or whatever.

I'm confuse

I think OP has a $20 bucket of salt and is farming ideas for how to use it to destroy his local datacenter.

The trick is replacing the salt in the bucket with plastic explosive.

$20 bucket of salt? That's way too much for salt. Who's your salt guy?

I'd think the data center would win

This is just like the Romans.

Salting the earth so that data centers cannot grow.

Good thinking.

My views of eco terrorism are mostly from reading Zodiac : an ecothriller. The protagonist uses quick acting cement to plug polluting sewage pipes and back up the toxic waste into the polluting facilities.

This could be done in the opposite direction as well. Plug the incoming water pipe to starve the beast pulling hundreds of thousand of liters of water.

Are datacenters like slugs or buckets of salt in any way like computers or what am I missing here

Im confused, what will salt do. My brain basically autocorrected it to suger cause you can put it in concrete and it will ruin it but what does salt do?

If the point is to put the salt in the water to corrode its cooling systems, you need way more than $20 bucket of salt. Far more water is used

I imagine pouring salt in the water tanks for their cooling systems. It'll make a giant expensive mess and potentially could shut down the datacenter for a while for repairs

Just set off an old school roadway safety flare inside of one.

Decent chance that'll set off the fire suppression system, which will functionally ruin the datacenter, at least temporarily.

$23 bucks for 6 of em at Walmart.

Also substantially lighter and easier to handle than a bucket of salt.

Uh for legal purposes this is a joke, dark comedy.

Get it?

Because... a flare... is actually... really bright?

Hahaha!

Carthage moment

Why you're bendin' the wrong element there, son! I say- I say boy, you're lookin' like a monk in a zen garden pushing' all those particulates around! What you need is a fine, fierce fire! Have them CEO and AI tech types screamin' like you done pinched their momma!

Sugar keeps diesel engines from working and keep concrete from setting

Uhh, you might cause some damage with the salt, but you will need like literal tons of salts for it to destroy and data center

The data center??