War in the Gulf could tilt the cloud race toward China
AFP/Getty Images By Kinling Lo 9 April 2026 Iranian drone strikes on AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain have challenged the safety of data infrastructure. …
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“Data embassies” and safeguarding digital assets during wartime
… The Gulf strikes demonstrate “where AI-era conflict is heading,” Miah Hammond-Errey, founding chief executive of Strat Futures, a risk consultancy, wrote in a blog post for The Lowy Institute. “Governments have integrated classified military and intelligence systems so deeply into commercial infras…
Big Tech’s Gulf megaprojects are trapped between two war choke points
… U.S. policy protected chips from Beijing but not infrastructure from Tehran. Billions of dollars in U.S. technology infrastructure, and trillions more in planned investment, now depend on fiber-optic cables running through war zones. …
The Gulf was Silicon Valley’s bet on the future. Trump has put it in the crosshairs
… Wars have always targeted the infrastructure of their age. …