considering datacenters use water and don't have regular staff
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What? Building data centers in a region known for a constant lack of regional stability in order to take advantage of cheap land and labor isn't working out????
And those are cheap because law enforcement isn't so well spent on at all, that is, spending is mostly on secret police, riot police and khashoggizers.
Anyway. Building data centers in an area with hot climate is what seems weirdest. And seawater is not very good for cooling.
It makes sense in this region. You have cheap fossil fuels, you have a lot of sun for solar, and Qatar and Dubai and also Saudi Arabia are economic powerhouses with a lot of companies, tourists and so on, so you will of course need a data center.
"yeah but we saved like $0.0001 it's so worth it tho...."
I never in a million years would have thought that I would read that headline and think "well that ain't the worst thing in the world..."
The next headline will read something like, "Cancer has become a target in warfare for the first time."
Wouldn't surprise me if the Trump Regime deploys bioweapons, and everybody else scrambling to develop counteragents.
Iran to cure cancer to spite USA
I'm pretty sure we've declared war on cancer decades ago and have been targeting it for eradication ever since. But like drugs in the war on drugs, cancer is the one that keeps coming out on top.
What if we declared war on war, man?
Nuke the nukes!
Anyone else a little surprised by the realization that if an enemy took out all datacenters it would actually improve a lot of things and take us back 20 years to the golden age of the internet?
They want us to become a more educated population and protest against our genocides in the middle east. What a horrifying strategy!
Anyone taking out data centers is a friend
Surprised? No. But that's a lovely thought since most data centers have a net-negative value to people.
The coordinated strike had an immediate impact. Millions of people in Dubai and Abu Dhabi woke up on Monday unable to pay for a taxi, order a food delivery or check their bank balance on their mobile apps.
I honestly can't tell if this paragraph is supposed to be satirical.
Welcome to the present old man.
Shocked its taken this long.
Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.
Less brownout isn't odd when you understand how much power those things draw from the grid.
Even without considering the military use of an AI, that's a lot of expensive and fragile equipment packed into a relatively small building.
It's also pretty important infrastructure. Even before AI, one of the major providers datacentres going down would take out a solid chunk of modern internet.
Nothing would make billionaires change their tune about buddying up to this authoritarian regime faster than his actions leading to loss of profits
Imagine if Iran took out crucial infrastructure for AWS
Imagine if Iran took out crucial infrastructure for AWS
- I won't be surprised if they actually do.
Oh no! us-east-1 is down again!?
Not even terrorism would get companies off of us-east-1 or building availability zone redundant apps
I used to be corporate IT, and this would have ruined my weekend.... but my CEO donated to McConnell, Trump and the RNC, so fuck them.
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Is there a vote system? I'd like to vote on the next target. Looking at you, Big Tech^[Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and Nvidia]. 👀
Who would have thought that all these shiny toys would be so reachable. The rich have parroted this shit and acted untouchable. Its nice to see their infrastructure getting a smack. It like boasting about a fancy watch then walking down the street and getting robbed by a junkie. Tale as old as time.
The innocents in all these countries, and the environments are the ones that suffer the consequence, but what will get noticed is that war hurts production and consumer behavior. Oil scarcity stops people going places, stops stuff hitting the shelves, even the simple mortals like us knew this but the warmongers at the top want to play.
Kill data centers not people
I'm sure this will make RAM cheaper
Back in the day, you went dumpster diving for PC parts.
Now, you just sift through the rubble of data centers in war-torn countries.
If my local datacenter exploded I'd join the search and rescue team helping rescue the trapped DDR5.
Will nobody think of the poor GPUs?
I don't see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.
Iran is playing the game much better than expected. Come on Bezos, if anyone can afford a team of ninja assassins to take out the guy who started this war, you can!
wasn't there a game about hacking datacenters only you hacked them for real
also it was hamsters
That's one way to conserve water.
Ya! hit those clankers where it hurts!
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down for this...
Like, the data centers. The fucking reason my power bill doubled this year? The ones propping up LLM's that are actively stealing jobs from humans?
They want to attack those?
Okay. Is there a downside to this?
Uh... lower profit margins for the CEOs?
We already established government breathes for the investors gambling their generational wealth.
Our upsides are promptly neglected if there is any slight hint of potential downside to the billionaires.
Maybe someone will start a bounty program to damage these datacenters? That would be awful! Honestly, scouts honor.
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