National Supercomputers as Single‑Point Targets

Large, centralized supercomputing centers that host thousands of government and industry projects concentrate extremely sensitive data and therefore create single points of catastrophic compromise. A successful breach can expose defense, aerospace and advanced‑science secrets at scale and create a marketable trove for espionage or private sale. — This reframes conversations about HPC (high‑performance computing) policy and infrastructure: securing compute hubs is now as much a national security and export‑control problem as an IT one.