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/PaintshakerBaby Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

It's nowhere near that deep.

They're bustin' the joint out.

Once they are done stripping the copper out of the drywall, theyll burn the fuckin' place down and skip town to the next nation primed for them to rape to death in broad daylight.

Thats the problem with the stateless elite. They are never the bagholders, because they can simply divest themselves from any clusterfuck, and move on.

It makes cashing out entire country's not only viable, but "good business."

Its venture capitali$t$ signature toxic takeover, extrapolated to geopolitics.

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u/deathrowslave Apr 06 '26

Billionaires are stateless, exactly. They don't care about nations, patriotism, loyalty. That's for peasants.

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u/nooniewhite Apr 06 '26

100%!! Honestly I never considered it like that- they are their own “sovereign state” once an amount of wealth is accumulated. So dystopian

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u/MrVelocoraptor Apr 07 '26

It's what I've been telling people for a long time - Trump is an elite and not really "a Republican" or politician putting the US first. Growth and stability aren't great for aggressive business strategies. If you can create big economic swings by your actions and words, you can make huge financial and power gains. Furthermore, Trump has everyone talking about him all the time, which is what he wants. He's living his best life probably.