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To use an analogy, because it's like hearing about buildings being infected by viruses instead of the people living in them.

Datacenters hold machines which can belong to many different companies, and there can be intranets between them, but otherwise they are equivalent to being connected to the Internet.

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In a way, your analogy does make sense. But, I would also consider the question "Why haven't we heard of Data Centre Providers being affected by Ransomware" a valid one. And that was my first thought when I saw the question. I am hoping that is what the original question was about.

What would they ransom for money? Rack and switchport assignments?

Their client's data.

> "Why haven't we heard of Data Centre Providers being affected by Ransomware"

We have, but those stories are just as uninteresting as most other ransomware stories and go largely unreported.

I like you analogy, but the way I see it is rephrasing it as: Q: Why don't we hear about fire stations burning to the ground? A: They do, but the people running them are for the most part, experts in putting down and avoiding fires

Bad analogy, ever heard of Termites?

Routers/UPS/nodes/fire-suppress/IR-sensors etc all have Software, Firmware and a ~network, ransomware would be a nonsense attack, but a worm/virus/malware could be in the realm of reality to partially shutdown or even damage a data-center.

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