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[–] 130 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Even without considering the military use of an AI, that's a lot of expensive and fragile equipment packed into a relatively small building.

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  • [–] 76 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 71 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 79 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Shocked its taken this long.

    Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.

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  • [–] 74 points 6 months ago

    Who 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.

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    [Chorus] CEO, entrepreneur Born in 1964 Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezoooos

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    [–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Ya! hit those clankers where it hurts!

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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?

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    [–] 35 points 6 months ago

    That's one way to conserve water.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What? 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????

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    [–] 29 points 6 months ago

    Kill data centers not people

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago

    I don't see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    Will nobody think of the poor GPUs?

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    I never in a million years would have thought that I would read that headline and think "well that ain't the worst thing in the world..."

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sure this will make RAM cheaper

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago*

    considering datacenters use water and don't have regular staff

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Ok, who we have to fund to get those data centers burning?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The next headline will read something like, "Cancer has become a target in warfare for the first time."

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Maybe someone will start a bounty program to damage these datacenters? That would be awful! Honestly, scouts honor.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I see Amazon repurposing its delivery drones, or entering the same-day-air-defence-delivery (which would be splendid for Ukraine, too).

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    [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Is 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]. 👀

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Great I know a few more targets

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