Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate (tomshardware.com)

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[−] PedroBatista 38d ago
Wait, are stargate data centers a real thing? I thought it was a financial/political vehicle to pump the markets and kick the can down the road.
[−] ben_w 38d ago
They can be both.

I'm of the opinion that while e.g. xAI is in a pump game, OpenAI is at least trying to make money. But even if they're not, even if the DCs are as you say "a financial/political vehicle to pump the markets", they can still be physically real things.

That said, I have no idea how close to complete the Stargate UAE site is.

[−] TurdF3rguson 40d ago
I wonder what's stranger. That they think Trump will care about OpenAI's datacenter in Abu Dhabi, or that we're getting this news from tomshardware.com
[−] ivan_gammel 40d ago
He may care in the end, because TACO. Looks like this is a pattern of modern war where both sides are testing the escalation levels by attacking the infrastructure. It‘s like MAD, but going up in smaller increments rather than hitting with everything after one or two limited strikes like nuclear. Basically, you hit my power plant, I‘ll hit yours. It‘s the same path Ukraine went on: they initially showed restraint in responses, but now they are matching Russian pressure by choosing the same civilian targets.
[−] drivingmenuts 40d ago
He won't care unless someone bribes him to care. This is all happening someplace not at one of his golf courses.
[−] defrost 40d ago
Well, there you have it - the principal investors in $30 billion dollar capital infrastructure projects have been known to bribe a POTUS or two.

At the very least dangle a shiny gold ball tickling trophy in his eyeline to briefly gain attention.

[−] flowerthoughts 40d ago
Indeed. Tit for tat is well known to be an effective strategy. It's almost guaranteed to create one side that feels weaker than the other, while giving that party a way out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

[−] nubg 40d ago

> by choosing the same civilian targets

not sure what the point of this propaganda is?

ukraine doesn't shoot rockets at appartments.

hitting (dual use) energy infrastructure is a completely different level then targeting civilian homes.

[−] ivan_gammel 40d ago
Nobody except Israel is setting civilian homes as targets for their rockets. Not all energy infrastructure is even remotely „dual use“ (and this label is itself propaganda used to justify strikes on non-military targets).
[−] idiotsecant 39d ago
All Russian infrastructure of all types would be perfectly safe tomorrow if they just stopped brutally invading their neighbors. Let's be plain and clear here: the Russian moral position lies somewhere 10 miles below the floor of the deepest ocean trench. The moral high road is pretty easy to achieve.
[−] ivan_gammel 39d ago
I don‘t think „moral high roads“ have any relevance in context of this discussion. If such conversation triggers you, try to breathe and think why first.
[−] queenkjuul 39d ago
US seems to have hit more than a few apartment blocks in Tehran. But you're mostly right
[−] queenkjuul 39d ago
Dual use is nonsense, all power plants and highways are "dual use", hell so are farms, water treatment, dams... It's a term used exclusively to justify war crimes.
[−] bigyabai 40d ago
It's not a terrible target. Long-term it puts stress on US/UAE cooperation, and short-term it mirrors the destabilization inside Iran with escalation outside it.

From the armchair perspective, these sorts of strikes are exactly what I'd imagine that China is advocating for behind closed doors. A few well-placed drone strikes can cause more economic damage than any SAM shootdown or embassy attack could, tactically accelerating the war and strategically entrenching Chinese technology.

[−] claaams 40d ago
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[−] comrade1234 38d ago
Would this be a war crime in the same way destroying a bridge only used by civilians is a war crime?
[−] wewewedxfgdf 40d ago
Seems pretty easy to me to just stop the war to end this sort of stuff.

But I must be missing something.

[−] mskogly 39d ago
Says «Tom’s hardware». Get verification from a trusted source before sharing
[−] yanhangyhy 38d ago
its very smart move...for Iran. really thing.
[−] k310 40d ago
It started as "Weapons of Mass Distraction" from Epstein.

Completely overplayed. Epstein (and fiends) will be the cause of more mass slaughter, starting with a school full of little girls. Of course, little girls.

The world is being run by a gang of narcissistic, sociopathic fiends thanks to all the idiots who fell for their racist, misogynist, nationalist, religious fanaticism.

Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda:

To end the human institution of war, to relegate it to history with such barbarous practices as slavery―at one time also considered a natural, inevitable, “part of human nature”―we must establish respect for the inviolable dignity of human life as the core value of our age.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

[−] aaron695 40d ago
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[−] stavros 38d ago
The US really pulled a Russia with this "special military operation".
[−] richwater 38d ago
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[−] mikkupikku 38d ago
Oh no!

...anyway... Seriously bros, this is a war where one side is making wildly inflammatory, specific and credible threats against the civilian infrastructure of the other and this is a response to that, hardly even a response in kind. If they strike these assets it will cause financial burden for rich people, not plunge millions of civilians into darkness as the POTUS is credibly threatening to do.

Iranian attacks on US soil: Fuck all! So why is America fighting Iran? Insane ziofascist cultists picking fights on the other side of the planet to provoke the Apocalypse so they can all be raptured to paradise. (Translation: boomers are getting old and they want to see burning flesh one more time before they die.)

[−] palmotea 40d ago
Go for it!