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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???

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      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.

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        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.

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    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…”

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    The next headline will read something like, “Cancer has become a target in warfare for the first time.”

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    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?

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    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.

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    Even without considering the military use of an AI, that’s a lot of expensive and fragile equipment packed into a relatively small building.

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      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.

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        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

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    Shocked its taken this long.

    Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.

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    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.

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    Is there a vote system? I’d like to vote on the next target. Looking at you, Big Tech[1]. 👀


    1. Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and Nvidia ↩︎

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      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.

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        If my local datacenter exploded I’d join the search and rescue team helping rescue the trapped DDR5.

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    I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.

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    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!