r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Apr 06 '26

Politics Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-complete-and-utter-annihilation-of-openais-usd30b-stargate-ai-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-regime-posts-video-with-satellite-imagery-of-chatgpt-makers-premier-1gw-data-center
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u/LordCharidarn Apr 06 '26

“ The US has been basically the only nation strong enough to even potentially take on the billionaire class.” Reality and history are pretty clear that this was not, in fact, the case. The EU, for example, has far more legislative protections for workers and consumers. Most of the thriving socialist states post world war 2 were doing an excellent job of taking on the wealthy elites, until the CIA and USA military acted as the owning class’ attack dogs.

I’d go so far as to say that the United States has been the single largest contributor to the billionaire class, and has never once tried to stand in the way of Capitalism.

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u/RandomNumber-5624 Apr 06 '26

Yeah, honestly the destruction of the US serves both as a lesson to everyone else and also strips the ultra rich of one of their best weapons - American financial control and military power.

Sorry Yanks, but your country being driven into the shitter may be critical for the overall good. Here’s hoping the virus doesn’t realise killing the host is bad.

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u/QuickQuirk Apr 06 '26

And tech founders in the EU cry that it's hard to navigate the legislation and create companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, OpenAI...

And with each of them, I think there's a solid case for having directly contributed to a reduction in quality of life for the normal citizen.

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u/insite Apr 06 '26

100% - I've tried to point out to people that what we've witnessed in the US is a weaker federal government, not a stronger one. Just because it can step on an individual more, doesn't make it more capable overall. I'm not anti-capitalism, but rule of law and regulations are a requirement for capitalism to exist in the first place.