Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

Post by Zetaphor » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 7:07 AM UTC

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Middle East isn’t some 3rd world. If you can imagine futuristic cities, rich Middle East countries are already living in them with all the oil wealth. They have phones, computers, digital services just like the US and Europe. Makes sense they want a data center in the region, close to them just like the US and Europe have data enters close to their users.

Americans seem to think the middle-east is some dystopian place where everyone is near poverty living in mudhuts, when places like Iran have a higher level of literacy than the USA, with more female college graduates. There's definitely a lot of issues that need to be addressed at a cultural and social-economical level in places like Dubai exploiting migrant workers like slaves, the UAE, etc... but America has plenty…

Post by disgruntledphd2 » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC

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Not to be insensitive about the humanitarian and economic situation, but, I am curious why there are data centers in that region at all? It just seems horribly inefficient from a cooling and electricity standpoint. Not to mention water. My pessimistic assumption is that Amazon said "yes" to handouts from regional government efforts to be relevant in tech, and that those data centers dont really matter to anyone but l…

They have the cheapest oil in the world and in the future (and present) they will likely have cheap solar energy. And until this fine misadventure, it was also possible they would get extremely cheap nuclear energy. Given that the Gulf is fairly central, has tremendous flight connectivity, has tremendous capacity for business and business conference growth, Dubai was only looking to increase its share of global finan…

Post by MagicMoonlight » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

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> I gave examples of it actually happening. Ironically Yemen (Houthis) are fighting not only with US but against other gulf sates like Saudi Arabia as well. It's not really an example that demonstrates unity in gulf. > The Taliban beat the US. Taliban, brought to you by US of A to combat Soviet Union's influence! Well, it seems they are done beating US and are now busy beating Afghan women. > The US tends to lose a l…

> Do they really? Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq (it's an Iran proxy now). Korea was a stalemate. Pretty much every time the US goes alone against a medium-sized country, it doesn't end in victory.

Post by FpUser » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

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I said "independent to the degree possible", not absolutely. I do not live in a binary world. I accept things in between. Being part of group should be voluntary, not forced What I definitely do not want is my life to be dictated by a few imbeciles at the top who are bought by large corps to pretend to be "by the people for the people".

Isn't it expected that in a system that favors individualism over collectivism that a few people will be able to amass disproportionately more wealth and power than everyone else with no incentive or societally enforced responsibility to share that wealth and power, thus creating a society were your life is dictated by a few imbeciles at the top, not who are not bought by large corps, but who own the large corps?

Post by wutwutwat » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC

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