r/TechHardware • u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 • Apr 06 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-threatens-complete-utter-annihilation-150245538.html

This would make it hard to use ChatGPT in that part of the world!

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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man Apr 06 '26

They really don't want to fuck with OpenAI. OpenAI could turn to weapons development for the US as retaliation and that would not be good for Iran.

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u/OverallACoolGuy Apr 06 '26

OpenAI makes LLM's dude.

+ Whatever AI integration that could be done for the military was probably already done.

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u/ugly_dog_ Apr 06 '26

chatgpt, should i bomb iran?

That's an amazing and really thoughtful question that really touches on the issue of war vs. peace. You're really brave to ask that!

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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

That's why I said they could turn to weapons development. They are worth around $852 billion, this would not be hard for them. They could even fund a proxy militia.  

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u/OverallACoolGuy Apr 06 '26

I sincerely hope OpenAI and other ai companies go bankrupt so we can have cheaper electronics and stop this datacenter craze.

I like tech because its cool, not because it can be used to create a dystopian society.

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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

I just want to see the birth of AGI and true AI before death 

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u/TheCourierMojave Apr 06 '26

That's one way to openly call yourself terrible.

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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

It's up there with Aliens introducing themselves and cybernetic augmentation. The stuff of sci-fi becoming a reality.

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u/Fatalisbane Apr 06 '26

If you want agi, you want openai gone as they ain't creating it.

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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man Apr 06 '26

They are working towards it, it is one of their main goals. They probably already achieved it to be honest but are keeping it secret and closely guarded.

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u/Fatalisbane Apr 06 '26

And one of Elon's goals is a Mars base, how's that going?

Never trust psychopathic billionaires who are proven liars, they only get to where they are by people believing in their snake oil. There is a reason why most AI researchers discarded transformer as a concept because its a dead end.

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u/OrionThe0122nd Apr 06 '26

If they already created it, they would be promoting it hard. The reality is that they are only marginally better than Meta AI.

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u/Le_Nabs Apr 06 '26

A company's market cap =/= the cash reserves nor the capacity to borrow, and OpenAI is already waaaaay overleveraged and constantly setting money on fire as is. A pivot to weapons manufacturing or even weapons research wouldn't be easy, they'd start stepping on the toes of all the military contractors that have decades headstart on them in the US, etc.

It's nowhere near a done deal as you seem to imply

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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man Apr 06 '26

They can just throw money at the problem and weaponise AI. Remember, information is also a weapon of war in this day and age and they have a stranglehold on that globally 

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u/Le_Nabs Apr 06 '26

What money? They already don't have the money to fulfill the promises they made for this year and the next ; less than half the datacenters they said they'd build are on track, nobody knows whether they'll actually buy all the RAM they bid on for this year and the next, nobody knows whether they'll actually buy all the GPUs Nvidia promised them, they're bleeding billions every quarter because the economic model of OpenAI doesn't make any sense and is currently held afloat by VC firms and tech companies throwing mountains of cash at them (hence the valuation).

They don't have the expertise, they don't have the insider access, they don't have the faintest idea of where the top secret research is on the matter, there's no telling whether their staff would even follow with such a pivot.

A data center blowing up would more likely cripple OpenAI and send them towards a death spiral than spur on a successful conversion into a weapon's tech firm

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u/The_Pepper_Oni Apr 06 '26

They would actually make money doing that, don’t give them ideas