Nor is the GP post accurate about what Google's options are, since it's obviously an option to bring in the lawyers, resist, and get a court order to block FBI's actions for a while, if Google were inclined to do so.
I tend to scoff at the notion that FBI would start "dismantling data centers" in the manner described.
Note: This was about "Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers" which means the FBI was far from a ticking time bomb scenario.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/f-b-i-seizes-web-se...The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline.
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“Our servers happened to be in with some naughty servers,” he said, adding that his sites were not the target of the raid. Curbed is working to get its sites back online, probably by Wednesday.
PS: When the FBI shows up you have zero rights to prevent them from taking anything on site, the only thing a lawyers can do is prevent evidence from being used in a court case after the fact. Granted, at Google scale they are more concerned with backlash and it takes a lot of effort to confiscate that much hardware, but that's not going to stop them in the case of a major incident. Also, by failing to help you are breaking the law let alone trying to stop them.
I tend to scoff at the notion that FBI would start "dismantling data centers" in the manner described.