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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@peter Yes and no.

Because these data centers are near to village, and their implementation has been imposed to these villagers (usually, poor people). If they damage the instalation without harm for the local people will be ok.

Would be better if the target was the house of the Broligarcs.

@CorioPsicologia i'm not actually in favor of dropping ballistic missiles on data centers. villagers aside, the janitors don't deserve that. likewise, there are hundreds of servants working in the broligarc's houses, i wouldn't want to kill them either.

@peter @CorioPsicologia

Not that Iran will, but they could warn everyone in advance to evacuate before the bombs hit and the data center would still be a sitting duck.

@peter I was having a very boring work shift, just to see this at the very end and it gave me an instant boost of energy. This is the best & funniest shit I have read all year. For the love of Allah, don't threaten me with a good time. Just annihilate that building. I don't just want to see Microsoft and Sam Altman cry and beg for mercy, but I want them to feel pain.
@peter probably their threat model didn't include "drones arriving from Iran"

@peter As long as the building is unoccupied and there is no collateral damage, great.

It's never quite that simple though, sadly.

@peter Dont threaten me with a good time!

No.... wait, PLEASE DO! All the good times!

@peter Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones...
@peter the war weapons industry may be happy to see this, they have new clients now

@peter @cstross

I can’t believe the capitalism-addled brains in this thread going “if it’s unoccupied” or “if they give a warning first to evacuate”

This is the warning. The building can be evacuated now to be cautious, if brains weren’t boiled by “work must go on till last minute cause money”

@CynAq @peter @cstross yeah, if I was a rack rat onsite and hadn't evacuated yet, I'd be getting out now.