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…”
Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time
Submitted 13 hours 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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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 56 minutes ago
Professorozone@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
The next headline will read something like, “Cancer has become a target in warfare for the first time.”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 minutes 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.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 hours 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]. 👀
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 38 minutes ago
I know you meant ‘targets’. Well played.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 6 minutes ago
Whoopsie doodle.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 13 hours 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.
T156@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
Wammityblam@lemmy.world 11 hours 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
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 hours 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?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Surprised? No. But that’s a lovely thought since most data centers have a net-negative value to people.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Shocked its taken this long.
Residents report following the strike seeing an improvement in water pressure, quality, and oddly - less brownouts.
snooggums@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Less brownout isn’t odd when you understand how much power those things draw from the grid.
qqq@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Welcome to the present old man.
Cherry@piefed.social 12 hours 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.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m sure this will make RAM cheaper
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 hours ago
I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Will nobody think of the poor GPUs?
xSikes@feddit.online 8 hours ago
Kill data centers not people
luthis@lemmy.nz 12 hours 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!
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 hours ago
That’s one way to conserve water.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Ya! hit those clankers where it hurts!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours 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?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Ok, who we have to fund to get those data center burning?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours 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.
hector@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Bounty system?
hector@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Maybe someone will start a bounty program to damage these datacenters? That would be awful! Honestly, scouts honor.
SrMono@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I see Amazon repurposing its delivery drones, or entering the same-day-air-defence-delivery (which would be splendid for Ukraine, too).
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 9 hours ago
CEOs jump in the war, pissed at loss of infrastructure. They’re yatchs start getting hit too. Image
Cherry@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Would love to see pics of burned yacht’s.
teft@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Make dual purpose drones. When they aren’t delivering packages they’re delivering explosives. Problemo solved-o.
RalfWausE@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I wouldn’t have thought that we might see something like Neuromancers operation “Screaming Fist” in next couple of years…
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 10 hours ago
Great I know a few more targets
nucleative@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Damn I better check my contracts and see if they have any war or terrorism clauses 😅
nlghtcrawIer@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Guess war of the world was a prophecy! We owe ice cube an apology :D
Godric@lemmy.world 11 minutes 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???