AI data centers have become sitting ducks in the Iran war
Iran and the United States have attacked at least five data centers in the Gulf region, including a second Iranian missile attack on an Amazon data center in Bahrain late last month.
Saudi Arabia has dedicated a significant portion of its $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund to AI, and the UAE signed a landmark deal with the Trump administration last year to build Stargate, a $500 billion AI data center – the largest such project outside the United States.
The region’s data centers are important not only to the US military and AI industries but also to the Gulf region, which fancied itself a third global AI hub, along with the United States and China.
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