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Post by altmanaltman » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:02 PM UTC

testdelacc1 wrote: post #441

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #437

Related: Ukraine have been targeting [1] warehouses owned by Wildberries, the Russian domestic equivalent of Amazon, causing $2.2bn of damage to-date. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/ukraine-wareho...

I wonder why they don’t target Russian data centers? Much harder to repair or replace.

the point of hitting them is to cause commercial damage to american companies. In reality, this changes little in terms of US capacity. Doing the equivalent of this to Russia would be attacking their oil ports and infrastructure.

Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by Someone » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

palmotea wrote: post #124

dhx wrote: post #62

AWS's 3 data centres in me-south-1 are: BAH53 (Manama): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492345589 An adjoining substation to BAH53 had one of it's two main buildings damaged/destroyed about 2026-07-16 per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-data-center-power-substation-bahrain-jul-16th-2026-142024 Then about 2026-07-22 BAH53 itself was damaged/destroyed per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-amazon-we…

> If these data centres are rebuilt, you'd maybe expect them to be rebuilt in new locations behind existing _permanent_ (and seemingly quite expensive) air/missile defence batteries in Bahrain I've seen data centers that were built to withstand an aircraft impact (they were located on a major airport flight path). I wonder if they'd rebuild these to that standard or something even stronger, given these attacks. It pr…

> It probably wouldn't help much against ballistic missiles, but it might make it more resilient against drone attacks.

I think the two kinds of attacks are so different that they require different defenses.

Drones need not fly in straight lines. Data centers need ventilation, providing a path for drones. Putting grids in a ventilation shaft will stop the first drone, but a coordinated attack will use one drone to blow up defenses and a second/third/etc one to reach the target

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Post by radiator » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

mkesper wrote: post #443

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #437

Related: Ukraine have been targeting [1] warehouses owned by Wildberries, the Russian domestic equivalent of Amazon, causing $2.2bn of damage to-date. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/ukraine-wareho...

These feel quite different. IRGC attacked Amazon compute. Ukraine attacked several warehouses. Comparing Wildberries to Amazon is also only half the truth. Wildberries is directly part of russian war machine as soldiers need to buy essential dual-use equipment there and they even sell weapons.

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Post by drabbiticus » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

radiator wrote: post #463

mkesper wrote: post #443

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These feel quite different. IRGC attacked Amazon compute. Ukraine attacked several warehouses. Comparing Wildberries to Amazon is also only half the truth. Wildberries is directly part of russian war machine as soldiers need to buy essential dual-use equipment there and they even sell weapons.

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I admit I've had the privilege of not following the war between Russia/Ukraine very closely, but your question seems to assume that Russia has been clearly delineating between civilian and military targets. "UN Meetings Coverage and Press Releases : Russian Attacks in Ukraine Show ‘Clear’ Pattern of Targeting Civilians, UN Officials Stress, as Security Council Speakers Call for Urgent De-escalation" [1] from Jul 9, 2026 suggests that is not the case and claims "16,402 civilians, including 802 children, have been killed in Ukraine"

[1] https://press.un.org/en/2026/sc16408.doc.htm

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Post by lesuorac » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

radiator wrote: post #463

mkesper wrote: post #443

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These feel quite different. IRGC attacked Amazon compute. Ukraine attacked several warehouses. Comparing Wildberries to Amazon is also only half the truth. Wildberries is directly part of russian war machine as soldiers need to buy essential dual-use equipment there and they even sell weapons.

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Presumably they don't know where they are.

It's not like something being civilian infrastructure is a problem -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain...

What's somebody going to do? Complain to the UN?

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Post by paulryanrogers » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

radiator wrote: post #463

mkesper wrote: post #443

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These feel quite different. IRGC attacked Amazon compute. Ukraine attacked several warehouses. Comparing Wildberries to Amazon is also only half the truth. Wildberries is directly part of russian war machine as soldiers need to buy essential dual-use equipment there and they even sell weapons.

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> What are Russia's reasons not to fire ballistic missiles at those factories, wherever they may be?

Russia is already targeting apartment blocks. I doubt they hesitate to attack known factories.

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Post by shevy-java » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC

emosenkis wrote: post #148

throwaw12 wrote: post #27

I feel for both, people who where hosting there not expecting this war and this attack and the attackers, because they didn't attack just because they wanted but attacked as a response as stated earlier. Winner: US military industrial complex + Israel Losers: Everyone else

Please explain how attacking a civilian data center in an uninvolved country is a "response".

What do you mean? It is very clear that Trump declared war on Iran. That's factual.

Civilian damage occurs all the time - often on purpose (infrastructure), sometimes not directly on purpose (drones getting off-target for various reasons, that also happens and not all of this is on purpose). What Iran does here is increase the cost of waging warfare against it, to make continuation of war as unappealing as possible. To claim the nearby countries are "uninvolved" while hosting military bases or providing targeting data to the USA is just propaganda. Why would you insinuate this? It is clearly an incorrect statement. One can debate whether targeting amazon is useful or not, but definitely you don't have an uninvolved country here, so much is clear. Besides, all companies of a given country at war, need to provide data and money anyway.

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Post by frollogaston » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #444

js4ever wrote: post #438

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are you saying jews control the world?

No, they're saying America is a vassal of Israel. Very different statement.

Exactly. It's not US imperialism. I'm not against US imperialism.

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Post by frollogaston » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #334

singleshot_ wrote: post #252

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> Bush didn't cause the mess in the gulf, period, full stop. Uh, > Is there space for nuanced discussion? Apparently not?

As mentioned, if you want to talk nuance bring the nuance to your comment. Don't try to fake it with "Even Bush and Biden" to make yourself feel smart on HN. You aren't, that shit's dangerous because it excuses further malfesance. Bush and Biden left a functioning gulf, Trump didn't. That difference is important even if you want to talk nuance.

Why bother, if you've already (incorrectly) talked out in your head what I'm going to say? Not going to deal with this pretention.

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Post by curation » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

testdelacc1 wrote: post #441

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #437

Related: Ukraine have been targeting [1] warehouses owned by Wildberries, the Russian domestic equivalent of Amazon, causing $2.2bn of damage to-date. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/ukraine-wareho...

I wonder why they don’t target Russian data centers? Much harder to repair or replace.

wildberries has been taken over by an oligarch and the only powers in Russia that Putin may hear are the oligarchs. There will be no 'overthrow of Putin' in Russia because there is no institutional support and it is well understood by literate people - a revolution is not just a disorganized uprising on the streets (what happens the next day? - return to normal) it requires years of planning and support.