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A datacenter strike is confirmed as deliberate

development2026-03-06

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Iranian state media revealed that Amazon's Bahrain data center was deliberately targeted by the IRGC for the company's US military support, one of the first known cases of a data center intentionally struck as an act of war.

Reporting date: 2026-03-06 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 6, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Collateral damage on the 2nd; confirmed intent on the 6th.

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Welcome to March 6, 2026

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Three cloud datacenters are hit as lasers intercept at $4 a shot

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A datacenter strike is confirmed as deliberate
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-03-06
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-06-bahrain-datacenter-hit-deliberately
Claim: Iranian state media revealed that Amazon's Bahrain data center was deliberately targeted by the IRGC for the company's US military support, one of the first known cases of a data center intentionally struck as an act of war.
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- Welcome to March 6, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-6-2026
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