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Inside China Business - Iran spent $1 million to wipe out $30 billion in data center plans, and take down Amazon in the ME (www.youtube.com)
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"Compute Diplomacy" was a US strategy to dislodge Chinese companies in the Middle East, and compel cooperation with Silicon Valley AI developers.

Bahrain and the UAE hosted large Amazon Web Services data centers, and planned a $30 billion, 5-GW Stargate project.

But Iran targeted AWS facilities in the earliest days of the war, knocking them offline for months.

Cloud Services is Amazon's primary profit driver, and is a "dual-use" company that serves a wide range of military and commercial clients.

The Stargate project in the UAE is now under review, as the managers wrestle with how to protect the facilities from attack by drones and missiles.

China's "Token Outbound" economy is ramping up, and is ironically in the best position of all to benefit from Iran's attacks on data centers in the Gulf.

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[–] 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

I don't think it's going Similar to the "datacenters in space", it's going to make it cost 10x as much. There's a reason we don't build much underground.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago

    Wouldn't orbital Datacenters be way more than 10x? Lifting that much mass into orbit alone is expensive. Plus the amount of engineering necessary to design a Datacenter that operates with a small supply or endlessly recycling water, that can be assembled and maintained remotely so that astronauts are not necessary.

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