dousing them with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acrylic paint
Is there a civil engineer here who would know what degree of damage will this cause?
‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’
Submitted 4 days ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to technology@beehaw.org
https://techwerkers.nl/en/posts/aanval-microsoft-ai-datacentrum/
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verstra@programming.dev 4 days ago
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Pretty minor. If they picked up the whole data center and soaked it in a large jug of 10% acetic acid for about nine months, the concrete would lose about 20% of its strength.
Not sure about the civil engineering side, but I assume there’s enough safety factor in your average construction to account for 20% strength loss.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Not an engineer but vinegar (ascetic acid) at full strength applied early enough during curing could be a problem. If it’s the watered down stuff for home use and the concrete was already partially cured it wouldn’t do almost anything.
Earthling105b@midwest.social 46 minutes ago
Would it have made more sense for them to claim it was a secret mixture of stuff that destroys concrete? If the engineers were obligated to check the structure because they didn’t know what was sprayed on it, that would have delayed construction, even if the liquid was pretty benign.