just saw a tweet praising a company because of their choice to use swiss servers and they had a pompous sentance in parenthesis like (upside to banking secret culture)

like, dude, at the end of the day, guaranteed their 'server' is just a linux box somewhere, just like anywhere else in the world just STFU

god i HATE ignorance, hype, and stupid tropes that managers just automatically subscribe to with their 2 brain cell NPC brain

I agree, hype is hype.

From a legal standpoint though, swiss servers are really the best way to funnel financial transactions to and from Russia.

One part of my brain loves to play (and read) what if scenarios.

An interesting fact is that cloud centers are "centered" in certain regions.

There are - search via Google - very concrete catastrophy simulations regarding outtakes of cloud server centre locations, which focus mostly on an domino effect.

Especially true for any country, the weakest link is the electricity grid. Doesn't matter what country - maintenance of infrastructure is in every country a clusterfuck. Clusterfuck mostly due to ignoring it for dozens of years.

Swiss and other countries offer server locations which are hosted in old world war bunkers integrated into mountain sites (or other very rural locations) - with an independent power supply, e.g. by solar power.

If it's one of these data centres... I understand why they're promoting it.

Most of the current server locations are ... really easily targets. Again. Think small. Not some nuclear attack or stuff like that, but rather because they're focused in one location, which is easily known (electricity, water and other resource consumption) and thus easily compromised.

The OVH disaster in France showed what happens when "one" center goes down.

If the silicon valley data centers would go down.... Oh boy. We'd be fucked world wide.

Share the link you npc

@AnxiousADHDGuy found the swiss guy