Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654757
Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter
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#12I don't know much about geopolitics so tell me if I'm off base but it seems to me if they're making threats it's because the facility is not a high enough priority to actually strike? If they wanted to and had enough ordinance to overwhelm whatever defenses, then they just would right? But they can't/won't so they're hoping to gain advantage without actually spending ordinance? Regardless, it is grimly interesting to…
No. They have been able to destroy much more important and hardened targets, i.e multiple AN/TPY-2 radars, the extremely valuable AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar, $Bs worth of aircraft on the apron at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi.
Not to mention being able to quickly deliver counter-attacks to like for like infrastructure when theirs has been attacked. i.e the Ras Laffan counter punch after South Pars was attacked and the UAE aluminium plants after their steel mills were hit etc.
They have also already essentially taken AWS Bahrain permanently offline at this stage.
So they are certainly capable of it but simply hitting the target removes the leverage of using it in a negotiation. If it's already gone you can't say "we won't hit X if you agree to terms Y before time Z".
Re: Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter
#13I don't know much about geopolitics so tell me if I'm off base but it seems to me if they're making threats it's because the facility is not a high enough priority to actually strike? If they wanted to and had enough ordinance to overwhelm whatever defenses, then they just would right? But they can't/won't so they're hoping to gain advantage without actually spending ordinance? Regardless, it is grimly interesting to…
I guess the idea is to create pressure on the US govt. And it will only happen when the elites assets are damaged.
They did the same with US companies in the Gulf region, and then followed through with attacks on Oracle and Amazon data centers.
This strategy absolutely works.
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#14This is a slop article quoting shitty sources that auto generate articles from twitter headlines.
Re: Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter
#15I don't know much about geopolitics so tell me if I'm off base but it seems to me if they're making threats it's because the facility is not a high enough priority to actually strike? If they wanted to and had enough ordinance to overwhelm whatever defenses, then they just would right? But they can't/won't so they're hoping to gain advantage without actually spending ordinance? Regardless, it is grimly interesting to…
No... hitting it gives them nothing. What MIGHT give them something is the threat of hitting it, it might change the behavior of their enemy. Of course, if push comes to shove they might have to actually hit it to not lose credibility, but that's not the ideal outcome for them. Think of a kidnapper at a disadvantage threatening to shoot the hostage.
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#16Oracle and OpenAI centers getting hit, oil shortages forcing the world the move away from fossil fuels ... my cynical ass feels hope.
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#17Oracle and OpenAI centers getting hit, oil shortages forcing the world the move away from fossil fuels ... my cynical ass feels hope.
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#18Oracle and OpenAI centers getting hit, oil shortages forcing the world the move away from fossil fuels ... my cynical ass feels hope.
Fertilizer shortages worldwide resulting in massive famines all over the developing world, energy shortages that are affecting critical utilities supplies in the developing world... Sounds good, amirite?
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#19Being the datacenter is apparently mostly a scam, curious on who concocted an attack as an exit? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-massive-stargate-data...
The Abu Dhabi center is most certainly not a scam.
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#20Oracle and OpenAI centers getting hit, oil shortages forcing the world the move away from fossil fuels ... my cynical ass feels hope.
Fertilizer shortages worldwide resulting in massive famines all over the developing world, energy shortages that are affecting critical utilities supplies in the developing world... Sounds good, amirite?
Is it better to have no upset at all until we are past the point of no return for global warming based extinction?