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?
I’m sure this will make RAM cheaper
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.
Welcome to the present old man.
I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.
Will nobody think of the poor GPUs?
Maybe someone will start a bounty program to damage these datacenters? That would be awful! Honestly, scouts honor.
Shocked its taken this long.
Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.
Damn I better check my contracts and see if they have any war or terrorism clauses 😅
Ok, who we have to fund to get those data center burning?
Bounty system?
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.
Even without considering the military use of an AI, that’s a lot of expensive and fragile equipment packed into a relatively small building.
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.
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
Not even terrorism would get companies off of us-east-1 or building availability zone redundant apps
Great I know a few more targets
Ya! hit those clankers where it hurts!
I wouldn’t have thought that we might see something like Neuromancers operation “Screaming Fist” in next couple of years…
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
I see Amazon repurposing its delivery drones, or entering the same-day-air-defence-delivery (which would be splendid for Ukraine, too).
