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Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨excel24@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/datacenters-target-warfare-iran

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Less brownout isn’t odd when you understand how much power those things draw from the grid.

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  • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      wasn’t there a game about hacking datacenters only you hacked them for real

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  • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ya! hit those clankers where it hurts!

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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?

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Uh… lower profit margins for the CEOs?

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      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We already eatablished government breathes for the investors gambling with their generational wealth.

        Our upsides are promptly neglected if there is any slight hint of potential downside to the billionaires.

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  • qqq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Welcome to the present old man.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s one way to conserve water.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Surprised? No. But that’s a lovely thought since most data centers have a net-negative value to people.

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    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone taking out data centers is a friend

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They want us to become a more educated population and protest against our genocide in the middle east. Don’t let them!

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “yeah but we saved like $0.0001 it’s so worth it tho…”

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It makes sense in this region. You have cheap fossil fuels, you have a lot of sun for solar, and Qatar and Dubai and also Saudi Arabia are economic powerhouses with a lot of companies, tourists and so on, so you will of course need a data center.

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  • xSikes@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kill data centers not people

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Will nobody think of the poor GPUs?

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure this will make RAM cheaper

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    • LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If my local datacenter exploded I’d join the search and rescue team helping rescue the trapped DDR5.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bounty system?

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t have thought that we might see something like Neuromancers operation “Screaming Fist” in next couple of years…

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    • Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Iran to cure cancer to spite USA

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure we’ve declared war on cancer decades ago and have been targeting it for eradication ever since. But like the war on drugs, cancer is the one that keeps coming out on top.

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      • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What if we declared war on war, man?

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    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t surprise me if the Trump Regime deploys bioweapons, and everybody else scrambling to develop counteragents.

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  • SrMono@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      CEOs jump in the war, pissed at loss of infrastructure. They’re yatchs start getting hit too. Image

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      • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Would love to see pics of burned yacht’s.

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Make dual purpose drones. When they aren’t delivering packages they’re delivering explosives. Problemo solved-o.

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  • emotional_soup_88@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know you meant ‘targets’. Well played.

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      • emotional_soup_88@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Whoopsie doodle.

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  • thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Great I know a few more targets

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  • nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn I better check my contracts and see if they have any war or terrorism clauses 😅

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    • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gulp

      I work in a DC as well.

      I wonder if I qualify for danger pay now

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      • turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        seems like a pretty good time to unionize

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  • nlghtcrawIer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Guess war of the world was a prophecy! We owe ice cube an apology :D

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