The datacenters are the Achilles’ Heel
You’ve probably heard about Vibe Coding by now. The method by which a person creates an application through the use of AI, in a most Dunning-Kruger manner.
It leads to poor code, poor maintainability, poor security, and misaligned outcomes that create more problems than it solves.
The next big thing coming is Vibe Hacking. And like its sibling, it will enable those with a hacking bent to mount cyberattacks at a frightening scale. However, unlike Vibe-Coding, the fact that the code is poor is a feature, not a bug.
If there is one thing that is becoming clearer to me when thinking about big tech, it is that the datacenters are the next target.
They will be attacked both digitally and physically, and I fear that physically will bring the most disruption to the services that we all rely on for our daily lives.
The datacenters are the Achilles’ Heel.
4 June 2025 — French West Indies