ASHBURN, Va., Sept 5, 2025 – This former bedroom community is home to the world’s densest cluster of data centers. But U.S. officials warn that concentrating so much of the world’s digital infrastructure in one place has created a tempting target for attack.
Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., whose district includes Ashburn, warned in April that putting so many data centers so close together was a “huge problem.”
“You look at the Ukraine war, when Russia failed to hack Ukraine’s telecom networks, what did they target? They targeted the data centers,” he said. “And so, Northern Virginia is becoming more of a target than Washington D.C. itself.”…