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Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45531621

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[–] 134 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Oh nice. Well at least one good thing will come of this idiotic war if they succeed.

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  • [–] 55 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Arguably this energy crisis comes at an sub-optimal time for AI, where many models are struggling to monetize their models, while burning cash like mad. Either that, or they effectively just solar up the entire country in a matter of months...

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    There are not enough solar panels in the world available to pay for the LLMbecile data centres that are planned. And even if there were, most of them are in China. You think the Chinese are going to hand over their solar cells for any reason?

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, they will happily exchange solar panels for currency, that's how things work.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They have their own strategic needs to fill first. Ironically these are strategic needs brought about by Americans in the first place.

    There is no way in which China is going to let American businesses destabilize China for a bit of money. China learned early, before the rest of the world did, how much damage the USA causes when they decide they don't like losing to their competition. The Chinese will sell their solar panels for currency once they have sufficiently isolated themselves from the whims of American hegemony and dishonest trade practices. By then the degenerative AI bubble will have popped, the US economy will have tanked, and nobody in the USA (up to and including its government) will have the money to afford Chinese solar panels.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Except that Chinese manufacturing, including solar panels and the associated equipment, are going through a deflationary cycle right now because provinces over invested in capacity.

    And as far as I know, solar equipment isn't listed as a strategic industry yet.

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    • [–] 59 points 4 months ago

    Between the US regime, the mullahs, and OpenAI, this has to be the hardest game of fuck, marry, avoid in history.

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    [–] 48 points 4 months ago

    Stop. Don't. Come back.

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    [–] 43 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't have "cheering on Iran" on my 2026 bingo card, but here we fuckin' well are.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I know, right! The government of Iran is pure evil, but they are giving Trump hell and I kind of love it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Well in this specific instance they seem to be fighting clankers in a real way and for that I will give them props, even if their regime is vile and should fall, not the only one mind you (the current US administration and supreme court, the Russian got, the Chinese, the north Korean, the Hungarians under Or an, the Turks under Erdogan, the Israelis under Netanyahu, and that's just scratching the surface all should be removed from control) but Iran's current regime might have done something good for once.

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    • [–] 34 points 4 months ago

    Maybe hit a few more 'AI' data centers, just to be sure. And perhaps a different type of good deed all together just for variety sake!

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    [–] 32 points 4 months ago

    Wow! That would be so awesome!

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    [–] 30 points 4 months ago

    Oh no! Anyway.

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    [–] 28 points 4 months ago

    do it. doo it. doot.

    fucking hell though. fuck this timeline.

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    [–] 23 points 4 months ago

    Stop threatening, start doing!

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    Someone tell Iran they don't have the balls... so they do it.

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Oh noes...anyways.

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    • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Let them fight

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    [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well then - Allah Akbar!

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    • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Dewit

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I thought stargate was in USA not UAE.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Do it!

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    They should have said they would "obliterate" it.

    https://abcnews.com/Politics/obliterated-firestorm-trump-damage-iran-nuclear-sites/story?id=123201314

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Could/would something like this be insured? Surely not a lot of insurers would be willing to take a billion dollar (let alone 30) asset in a risky region? I really hope it isn't.

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