It wouldn't be that hard for them to pull off. I'd actually be shocked if they wouldn't put assets in the area for exactly that thing. It would be a hindrance to all the defense firms that are indirectly supporting the US military. It would also be a massive annoyance to both corporate interests and voter interests domestically.
When what brought it about, speaking in a hypothetical future tense, was US involvement that benefits no person or company in the US it would quickly deflate the US's political will or mandate from the people to pursue these wars. The current mandate that they have is that the current party technically controls the military, and so far it hasn't negatively impacted the public. The second that's not true, the American public will be asking questions about how we calculate who to attack. And there will be no answers besides open admission of corruption.
It would be very smart for Iran to do. It may even improve Iran's popularity in the US because people don't really like those data centers. And double smart when no one likes Israel at all in the US right now. How ironic will it be when Iran's PR in the US is better than Israel's, and we are fighting a war that only benefits Israel? It would divide the people from their government even more and knock out a strategic war resource.
But to protect PR, they'd have to somehow do it while minimizing deaths. These buildings have almost no personnel in them. But if there is one guard in the whole building, that will end up being the story. The news in the US that works for the military in times of war knows that US citizens don't give a single fuck about an AWS blade server. But one single AWS guard might be enough to get the American public to actually care about the Iran issue. So that is the risk they have to balance with that kind of an attack.
They don't need intercontinental missiles to do it. They only need rockets more crude than the ones they have given to Hamas or Hezbollah to target something 100 yards in front of them.
It's actually really difficult to bomb the US since we have that really big creek between us and Iran.
You don't need an ICBM. Many data centers are litterally a rocks through from publicly accessible land. Iran is known to successfully ship illicit rocketry that can travel the length of a town, much less 100 yards.
For example. This is an attack they just did on the largest radar system in the region. https://submatrix.net/c/War/CTnGZcYfZD.jpg They used in region proxies, the way they tend to. No ICBMs involved.
ICBMs travel at a rate of 10 kilometers per second
We can shoot down ICBMs. Rather easily actually. We've been able to do that for decades.
That's why Russia and China have had to pivot to saber rattling with "hyper-sonic missiles", which fly lower and with less predictable flight patterns. But those aren't intercontinental, so Iran would have to figure out how to get one close enough without getting detected and blown out of the water by it NAVY. ...And we can shoot those down too anyway even if they did.
You can't win a techno war against America. The only way to beat America is attrition.
America is doing just fine beating itself, thank you
Sure. Just wait 20 years and we'll be as worthless as Russia.