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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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Starting this Stubsack off, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAI's Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.
They've already bombed commercial data centres before, so I'm inclined to believe this isn't an empty threat.
Waiting for Yud to provide his whole-chested support for IRGC any second
I assign a relatively low probability, non-zero but not much more than 5%, maybe a solid 5.5%, that Yud goes even beyond that and implies that he is the 12th imam emerging from occultation
IRGC doing their part to Halt AI. Donate to them now!
aside from everything else, as posted by ed zitron previously i doubt that anything is really getting built there
Interesting, got a link?
there's been a claim of 200ish GW of new datacenters announced but it's only something like 5GW being built and only a fraction of that is actually finished or powered on. this mostly goes for american ai dcs, which are 3/4 of them all. not sure if it holds for emirates, but it would completely not surprise me if it's the case there also https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/#how-much-actual-data-center-capacity-came-online-in-2025-my-estimate-3gw-of-it-load
https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-much-of-the-ai-bubble-is-real/ (paywalled) linked claim for 190GW https://www.sightlineclimate.com/research/data-center-outlook linked claim for 240GW https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-data-center-buildout-slowed-sharply/
Thanks for the sources I'll come back after I do some reading!