Cheap Drones Complicate the Gulf’s AI Boom

Cristiana Gigina

The war in Iran has ended the illusion that Gulf data centers can be treated as insulated commercial assets. In the very early days of the conflict, drone strikes impacted two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain, causing major disruption to cloud services. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps then published a list of 29 technology targets across Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, including facilities linked to AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. As the war

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