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# Think Tank Floats Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/think-tank-floats-military-strikes-on-chinese-data-centers/
- Published: 2026-09-10T23:10:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T23:10:05.000Z
- Description: A Washington-based research institution has begun openly advocating for kinetic action against foreign AI infrastructure as a legitimate policy option—a stark escalation from diplomatic posturing to explicit discussion of armed conflict over compute capacity.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, regulation/policy, geopolitics, ai safety

Source: [AI Governance, Ethics and Leadership](https://open.substack.com/pub/aigovernancelead/p/the-top-5-ai-governance-power-moves-epic-chatgpt-uber-lawsuit-agi)

A Washington-based research institution has begun openly advocating for kinetic action against foreign AI infrastructure as a legitimate policy option—a stark escalation from diplomatic posturing to explicit discussion of armed conflict over compute capacity. Some credible policy actors now view the AGI race as sufficiently zero-sum that conventional escalation ladders have collapsed, treating datacenter destruction as a viable counterbalance to perceived technological disadvantage. The shift from classified war-gaming to public intellectual argument normalizes military AI competition in ways that increase the risk of accidental escalation.