🚀 Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

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Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued this specific threat in a video update.

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@jbz

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@jbz
Please proceed. There may even be a Nobel in it for you.

I'm no fan of Iran's government, they're really awful people. But it is rather striking to note that their military retaliation has largely been what in another country might be called proportionate and restrained. Mostly military targets; oil facilities and desalination plants targeted only after theirs were hit.

What does it say when a regime as nasty as Iran's is the party that is largely acting like the adult in the room in terms of this war?

@jbz Let's start the Butlerian Jihad already. 🤩
@jbz Not seeing the downside here (provided staff are evacuated).

@jbz

Oh, ok. Whatever.

Won't hurt my feelings any...

@jbz

Much more important: sickening techbros naming their stuff after stuff from cool series and books should be prohibited.

@jbz

Choose your battles wisely …young at hearts. Best to just watch is my suggestion.

It may ( i hope somebody has some sense probably not) get more ugly.

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@jbz Don't threaten us with a goddamn good time !
@jbz I am backing Iran on this one.
@jbz Who do I have to drop in on to expedite this?

@jbz

Don't threaten us with a good time 🤨

@jbz
I see no downside to this.

@jbz @ Iran:

oh holy fuck please? pretty please? we'll love you forever and ever and a day?

-O

@jbz Iran doesn't have the fucking balls to do it.
@rotopenguin @jbz They do, they're already hitting everywhere in gulf countries.. hitting a private ai company is not difficult for them
@jbz Very troubling feelings abut this. On the one hand, Iran would probably execute me as an atheist trans person. But on the other hand, they are doing all the right things and attacking all the right targets.
@jbz why is there even a fucking data centre in Abu Dhabi?

@BubblegumYeti @jbz vast amounts of free solar power, cheap land, cheap labour, a regime with favourable laws on what you do with the data, and probably big subsidies from the govt to build and operate there.

Ironically, the gulf states are way ahead of the rest of the world (possibly excepting China) in pivoting away from fossil fuel use.

@WiteWulf @jbz Errr???? Sarcasm?
@BubblegumYeti @jbz sorry; wasn’t obvious 😔

@jbz

Iran is looking less and less like the bad guys all the time.

@jbz I would not strike the data center but the environmental controls (power, AC). This will keep the computers intact. When Iran then has ground forces on site they can confiscate the hardware and sell off to get money for rebuilding their infrastructure.

@jbz @gunstick

Good thinking, the #iran ballistics and drones, accurate though they are, don't have the precision though.

Esp. Since cooling and substation are close to the iron.

Plan is great though, China would surely buy racks of dormant , embargoed Nvidia H100/H200s

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One can only hope....

#AISlop