Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream
For years, Gulf leaders made a simple promise to Silicon Valley: Bring your data, your models, and your chips, and we will give you stability.
On Sunday, that promise ended in flames, after Iran’s retaliatory strikes in response to U.S.-Israeli assault set an Amazon data center in the United Arab Emirates on fire.
In a statement released following the incident, Amazon said “objects” struck the building, creating sparks and flames, declining to link the incident to Iran’s missile and drone attack...
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