Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time
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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.
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
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.
that would be considered act of war, not terrorism
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.
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.
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!
[Chorus] CEO, entrepreneur Born in 1964 Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezoooos
Fuck their wives, drink their blood
Come on, Jeff, get 'em
Where is Bo when the world needs him most
Still inside I guess.
zuckerberg, gates, and buffet, amateurs can fucking suck it
wasn't there a game about hacking datacenters only you hacked them for real
also it was hamsters
I honestly can't tell if this paragraph is supposed to be satirical.
Welcome to the present old man.
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.
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?
Surprised? No. But that's a lovely thought since most data centers have a net-negative value to people.
Anyone taking out data centers is a friend
They want us to become a more educated population and protest against our genocides in the middle east. What a horrifying strategy!
That's one way to conserve water.
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????
"yeah but we saved like $0.0001 it's so worth it tho...."
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.
Kill data centers not people
I don't see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.
Will nobody think of the poor GPUs?
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..."
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.
considering datacenters use water and don't have regular staff
Ok, who we have to fund to get those data centers burning?
Bounty system?
It's wild. Most people don't want these in their cities, which is why most people don't even know they are being installed.
Like, fuck these goddamn corpos fucking up our bills so they can make even more money. Fuck data centers.
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
I see Amazon repurposing its delivery drones, or entering the same-day-air-defence-delivery (which would be splendid for Ukraine, too).
CEOs jump in the war, pissed at loss of infrastructure. They're yatchs start getting hit too.
Would love to see pics of burned yacht's.
Make dual purpose drones. When they aren’t delivering packages they’re delivering explosives. Problemo solved-o.
Maybe someone will start a bounty program to damage these datacenters? That would be awful! Honestly, scouts honor.
The next headline will read something like, "Cancer has become a target in warfare for the first time."
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!
Wouldn't surprise me if the Trump Regime deploys bioweapons, and everybody else scrambling to develop counteragents.
Great I know a few more targets
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]. 👀
I know you meant 'targets'. Well played.
Whoopsie doodle.
Guess war of the world was a prophecy! We owe ice cube an apology :D
Damn I better check my contracts and see if they have any war or terrorism clauses 😅
Gulp
I work in a DC as well.
I wonder if I qualify for danger pay now
seems like a pretty good time to unionize