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Look I don't want to suggest anything
but how well guarded can the data centers and crypto mining operations really be?
The data centers themselves are very well protected. They're modern fortresses with tall fencing, cameras, guards, biometric and RFID requirements for gaining entry into the building. Any remotely modern data center should be considered relatively impenetrable. Physical security of the servers is one of the primary concerns when designing a data center.
The power transformers and cooling equipment outside of the data center building, much less so. https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-grid-terror-20140207-story.html
Don't do adventurism folks. Any competent IT project can be redeployed in a new data center with a few keystrokes, any halfway competent data center operations team can safely shut down in the event of a cooling or a power failure before damage is done to the servers. If you actually took a rifle to an AWS data center, all you'll be doing is ruining some on-call engineer's weekend.
Data centers are designed to face off against state actors, with some being designed to survive getting nuked. Your plucky adventurist guerillas aren't going to do shit.