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Datacenters are expensive and soft targets.
Dude, building are pretty hard.
Yeah but it's really easy to hurt their feelings so be mindful
not OP but I believe they're "soft" in the sense that they don't have moats/high electric fences/battalions of armed guards around 24/7
With a clipboard you could probably just walk in and start unplugging things
That's... Not quite true. Usually they take access quite seriously. If in a multi tenant space every space will be separated and the physical cages around the machines locked and monitored.
All the same they are designed to keep small numbers of mostly law abiding people out, not an angry mob with torches.