… Meanwhile, Chinese cloud providers have also made some inroads in the region, but they face limitations as Gulf states have prioritized high-stakes partnerships with U.S. tech firms due to the implications for national security, experts said. “Technology is a strategic sector for regional governmen… …
… Data centers, until recently, were treated as commercial assets rather than national security concerns. “A theoretical scenario has become a concrete precedent,” Kristian Alexander, a senior fellow at the Rabdan Security and Defence Institute in Abu Dhabi, told Rest of World . “This does not necess… …
… The entire premise, that the Gulf offers political alignment, capital and physical safety, is being tested in real time. “A theoretical scenario has become a concrete precedent,” Kristian Alexander, a senior fellow at the Rabdan Security & Defence Institute in Abu Dhabi, told Rest of World . “This … …
… Governments are taking steps to reduce their exposure to such information choke points, which pose massive economic and security risks. …
… Supply chain security The U.S. wants companies to reduce their reliance on Chinese supply chains, but China is signaling it will fight against this trend. …
… Washington’s response was to build a security framework designed to keep Nvidia chips out of Chinese hands, not Iranian missiles out of server halls. …
… When Anthropic’s chief national security officer and former Biden administration export control architect Tarun Chhabra recently highlighted model distillation as an emerging national security concern, one detail stood out. …
… By Indranil Ghosh China Outside China 9 April 2026 War in the Gulf could tilt the cloud race toward China Strikes on U.S. data centers highlight the risks of concentration and the growing role of geopolitics in cloud competition. …
… Chinese AI companies face major hurdles in converting this popularity into revenue due to political scrutiny and data security concerns in the U.S. market. …
… But they are running into a wall, because the few alternatives to Nvidia are either far weaker or, in China’s case, blocked by the U.S. “Diversification away from Nvidia reduces the Gulf’s dependence on any one commercial vendor, but it doesn’t change the political risk of dependence on the U.S. at… …