--- title: The Cloud Has a Street Address—and Thieves Can Find It description: A 2007 heist in which criminals posing as police officers walked into a Verizon data center in London and removed servers worth millions serves as a lens for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-cloud-has-a-street-address-and-thieves-can-find-it-s5b9tcc7v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Cloud Has a Street Address—and Thieves Can Find It | daily.dev og:description: A 2007 heist in which criminals posing as police officers walked into a Verizon data center in London and removed servers worth millions serves as a lens for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-cloud-has-a-street-address-and-thieves-can-find-it-s5b9tcc7v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S5b9tCc7v.png og:image:alt: The Cloud Has a Street Address—and Thieves Can Find It og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Cloud Has a Street Address—and Thieves Can Find It **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A 2007 heist in which criminals posing as police officers walked into a Verizon data center in London and removed servers worth millions serves as a lens for examining modern AI infrastructure security. The core argument is that the cloud is not an abstraction — it occupies physical buildings with loading docks, power substations, fiber routes, and human staff. As AI data centers concentrate trillions of dollars in chips, proprietary models, and sensitive data, the attack surface expands beyond network intrusion to include physical break-ins, sabotage, insider threats, compromised contractors, and coordinated cyber-physical attacks. The piece argues that cybersecurity, physical security, operational technology, and business continuity must be treated as a single unified discipline rather than separate silos. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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