When will humans intentionally destroy an AI data center first?

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At some point, some humans are just not gonna go along with the plan. People are gonna lose jobs, wives, families and be very angry. They're gonna try and kill the machines. At least once successfully most likely. When will it happen?

Update 2025-05-29 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The act of destruction should be of a nature that it would likely be defined by the media as "terrorism," although this specific media definition is not a strict requirement. Planned demolitions do not count.

Update 2025-06-18 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): An act of war by a country, such as bombing an AI data center, will count towards resolution. This requires confirmation that the data center was an intentional target for strategic purposes.

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bought Ṁ50 NO

what about a country bombing an ai data center as an act of war?

@ian If confirmed, that would count. But it would require it being an intentional target for strategic purposes.

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@LesterCrafton https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/iran-war-uae-drone-strikes-aws-data-centers.html

seems pretty clear this was intentionally targeted, i don't know what your definition of "strategic purposes" is

Banking, payments services disrupted after Amazon UAE data centers hit in drone strikes

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have prompted a wave of retaliatory attacks across the Middle East.

@SaviorofPlant https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/iran-bombing-data-centers

Iranian Revolutionary Guard-affiliated news claimed that Iran had targeted both Amazon and Microsoft facilities, as the Financial Times reports, though the latter has yet to experience any outages in the region.

“Iran and proxies have targeted oil fields in the past, but their attacks this week on UAE data centers show they are now considered critical infrastructure,” executive director of the geopolitical unit at advisory Hilco Global, Patrick Murphy, told CNBC.

I think reporting indicates that this was both intentional and that it served a strategic purpose (to damage UAE infrastructure). I'm not sure what the title of this market meant by "destroy" though (are a few drone strikes that shut down the facility enough?)

bought Ṁ100 NO

I'm assuming, things like planned demolition doesn't count?

@ProjectVictory Planned demolition does not count. This has to be an act that will likely be defined by the media as "terrorism" although it doesn't have to be.