excel24Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time
Ya! hit those clankers where it hurts!
LucidlethargyI 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?
OpenStarsWe already eatablished government breathes for the investors gambling with their generational wealth.
Our upsides are promptly neglected if there is any slight hint of potential downside to the billionaires.
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
Not even terrorism would get companies off of us-east-1 or building availability zone redundant apps
MinnesotaGoddamthat would be considered act of war, not terrorism
DFX4509BI wouldn’t have thought that we might see something like Neuromancers operation “Screaming Fist” in next couple of years…
∟⊔⊤∦∣≶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
Señor MonoI see Amazon repurposing its delivery drones, or entering the same-day-air-defence-delivery (which would be splendid for Ukraine, too).
Cherry
teftWho 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.
Shocked its taken this long.
Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.
Great I know a few more targets
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.
Guess war of the world was a prophecy! We owe ice cube an apology :D
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?
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
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.
SamskaraI’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.
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 genocide in the middle east. Don’t let them!
durinnIs 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.
The next headline will read something like, “Cancer has become a target in warfare for the first time.”
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 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.
GodricWhat? 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???
‹Hexa«Back›“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.
JensSpahnpastaIt 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.