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Iran targeting hyperscaler data centers would be a decent strategy given how much money is sunk into AI at the moment
Given how heavily nVidia have reinforced their positive position on war, any data center is a valid target. Not even joking.
Literally and completely, wholly valid targets of war.
Thanks Jensen Huang!
Unfortunately it is also pretty profitable for Huang, becuase they don't own the datecenter, they sold the parts for it, and later they will sell more for the new one.
I agree that in the short-term, NVidia stand to make more money as a destroyed datacenter prompts it's owners to rebuild it. However, until the armed conflict stops, there might be a pause on datacenter construction in the region - why pay to (re)build a datacenter if it's probably going to be blown up again? From my (admittedly limited) reading of history, most reconstruction only happens in the years following an armed conflict's end.
Not how the laws of war work, not even when you don't like the targets.
The USA launched an illegal war, Iran retaliated illegally (targeting civilian infrastructure, of uninvolved countries), USA is escalating illegally.
American-owned sata centers are actually legal targets, because they're used to process intelligence and provide strike targets. They're basically equivalent to a CIA office. Israel also does this.
Got any evidence of that? If so, then I agree targeting them would likely be legal.
Since when was fucking Israel a guide on how to conduct legal war?!? Christ.
Because they train your guys?
They train your cops too.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought
American tech companies provide cloud computing and AI services to both the US and Israel, and obviously these services work through data centers, meaning that some data centers somewhere are legal targets, but it's impossible to know which. I'd argue that this makes all data centers run by relevant companies for cloud computing and similar services valid military targets.
No no, as in: Israel also uses AI assisted targeting like America.
So, would you say Russia is legitimate in striking infrastructure like power plants which are mostly used for civilian purposes but might power military buildings as a small percentage of their use?
Would Iran be justified, if it had a nuclear weapon, of dropping it on Tel Aviv, wiping out the civilian population alongside the Israeli Air Force headquarters?
Proportionality is a key concept in military planning. It's not the case that one drop of military utility makes something a legitimate target. It's certainly not if you only know that the minority military use is somewhere among many different locations and just bomb any of them on the off-chance.
Oh, and ok, sorry for the misunderstanding.
For starters nothing Russia does in this war is legitimate because the war itself is illegitimate, but that aside: No, because as you said there's no proportionality. Depriving civilians of power—a human right—is not proportional to cutting off power from a military building that likely has emergency power anyway.
See above, the lives of civilians are paramount. The difference between data centers and these examples is that Amazon data centers aren't necessary for any human rights, nor are they particularly important for civilian life. It's little damage to civilians for little military gain. If you have five empty luxury resorts and one military headquarters and can't distinguish between them (or all six are alternately used as military headquarters at random times), I'd say it's a fair decision to bomb all six. It's analogous to a factory that makes 90% shoes and 10% bullets. I also want to emphasize the importance of these facilities—AI-based targeting produces orders of magnitude more targets than human intelligence officers, allowing for orders of magnitude more strikes. When you're running a mass bombing campaign, running out of things to bomb is legitimately a thing that happens.
There are civilians working inside data centers, and they also provide services to civilians - some of which are critical and some are not.
By this logic, schools are valid targets because they are educating future CIA recruits and Walmart is a valid target because it's providing the food to fuel them.
Great the US also launched an illegal war in Iraq, ever hear about that Sun Tzu guy? Call me crazy but an illegally invaded country no longer has to follow the rules of war, the whole idea of a social contract.
Nope, that's not generally how the laws of war work.
I say "work" but because there's no international police force to arrest anyone for breaking it, this is more like philosophical theorising, but that's how it's conceived of, still.
To take the social contract analogy, if someone steals your phone, you generally have the legal right to use reasonable force to get it back, and if the thief gets hurt, tough shit. But if you track him to his house, burn it down and sodomise him, you're a psycho and going to jail.
Domestic law recognises exceptions for actions that are otherwise illegal to try and rectify another cringe; prosecuting a war in self defence is similarly an exception to the general prohibition on war, but "reasonable force" is analogous to "proportionality" - you don't get the right to carpet bomb Dubai because you got missiled by the USA.
Don't these countries host US bases?
Retaliating with strikes against us bases was not illegal.
yes, bases that are used as springboards for the american air force
And compared to the schools the US/Israel target, far fewer civilians.
Considering the valuations are based on non existent future data centers, I don’t see why they couldn’t continue to be based on nonexistent past data centers.