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Data centers emerge as targets in warfare's AI era
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These centers — fragile and exposed, protected against intruders but not drones and missiles, underpin financial systems, communications and artificial intelligence projects.
Key facts
- Iran struck a handful of data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain following Epic Fury bombardment from the U.S. and Israel
- Follow the money: Tehran's menacing is "highly symbolic and strategic," as it gets at "the heart of the U.S.-Gulf relationship" and where it's been headed, according to Elisa Ewers, a senior fellow
- These centers — fragile and exposed, protected against intruders but not drones and missiles — underpin financial systems, communications and artificial intelligence projects
- What they're saying: "The biggest takeaway is that physical resilience was taken for granted for the longest time, even in the Gulf states," Michael Deng, a geoeconomics technology analyst
Summary
They represent billions of dollars of investment both foreign and domestic, today and tomorrow. Iran struck a handful of data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain following Epic Fury bombardment from the U.S. and Israel. State media later shared a list of "enemy" infrastructure tied to American companies — Amazon, Nvidia and Palantir Technologies among them. Multiple outlets described this kind of retaliation as a first.