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Iran Is Bombing Data Centers in Retaliation
Iranian drone strikes caused structural and water damage to Amazon Web Services facilities, disrupting power and triggering outages as Amazon works on recovery.
- Earlier this week, Iranian drones struck three Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing structural, power, and water damage, Amazon.com Inc said on March 2.
- Iran and proxies view data centres as part of the conflict, with experts saying they now target these sites following earlier attacks on oil fields, treating them as critical infrastructure.
- Global outages followed the strikes, with the PHLX Semiconductor Index down over 2% and the NASDAQ Composite Index close to 2% amid export-policy and geopolitical concerns.
- Amazon advised customers to migrate workloads to alternate AWS Regions, while industry officials warned strikes could slow AI data-center expansion and chipmakers coordinate mitigation plans.
- Major AI and cloud investments in the UAE heighten the stakes as OpenAI, Oracle, and Nvidia back the Trump administration's 'Stargate' $500 billion initiative amid U.S. talks on AI chip export controls.
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The war in the Middle East opened a new unexpected front: digital infrastructure. The drone attacks launched by Iran on some data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain could mark first...
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