Jeff Jarvis
Iran targeting US tech?
Amazon says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain https://cnb.cx/4laJPOM
Mar 3 at 2:29pmWeb
Show threadJeff JarvisMar 3
Rest of World's report on the tech strikes:
Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream
https://restofworld.org/2026/amazon-uae-data-center-fire-iran-strike/
Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream

The region sold itself as a safe harbor for the world’s data. Amazon’s burning data center in the UAE has upended that pitch.

Rest of World
Show threadDavid Mitchell Mar 3

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“Not one of them contemplated the possibility that a regional adversary would launch missiles at the physical buildings where those chips were meant to run.”

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Reminder that “the cloud” is just someone else’s computer, that those computers sit in real buildings that can be “struck by objects” or bombed, or set on fire, or be flooded or have their power cut wherever they are…