- Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
Even without considering the military use of an AI, that’s a lot of expensive and fragile equipment packed into a relatively small building.
- T156@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
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.
- Wammityblam@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
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
8 daysImagine if Iran took out crucial infrastructure for AWS
- I won’t be surprised if they actually do.
- Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Not even terrorism would get companies off of us-east-1 or building availability zone redundant apps
- korazail@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish8 days
I used to be corporate IT, and this would have ruined my weekend… but my CEO donated to McConnell, Trump and the RNC, so fuck them.
- Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Shocked its taken this long.
Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.
- [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish8 days
Less brownout isn’t odd when you understand how much power those things draw from the grid.
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.
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!
- 8 days
Fuck their wives, drink their blood
Come on, Jeff, get 'em
- 8 days
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for this…
Like, the data centers. The fucking reason my power bill doubled this year? The ones propping up LLM’s that are actively stealing jobs from humans?
They want to attack those?
Okay. Is there a downside to this?
- Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
We already established government breathes for the investors gambling their generational wealth.
Our upsides are promptly neglected if there is any slight hint of potential downside to the billionaires.
- qqq@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
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.
- Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
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?
- 8 days
Surprised? No. But that’s a lovely thought since most data centers have a net-negative value to people.
- Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
They want us to become a more educated population and protest against our genocides in the middle east. What a horrifying strategy!
- HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish8 days
I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.
- Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
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???
- vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish7 days
And those are cheap because law enforcement isn’t so well spent on at all, that is, spending is mostly on secret police, riot police and khashoggizers.
Anyway. Building data centers in an area with hot climate is what seems weirdest. And seawater is not very good for cooling.
- LedgeDrop@lemmy.zipEnglish8 days
Back in the day, you went dumpster diving for PC parts.
Now, you just sift through the rubble of data centers in war-torn countries.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
If my local datacenter exploded I’d join the search and rescue team helping rescue the trapped DDR5.
- Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
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…”
- RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish8 days
I wouldn’t have thought that we might see something like Neuromancers operation “Screaming Fist” in next couple of years…
