As Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi, just think of all the extra admin it’s created for the people in charge of construction.

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barring anything else, pour one out for some poor construction project manager who suddenly has to add “site being blown up” to the Asana board

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