Because they have money and they want data centers built there?
Free-Minimum-5844 on
Rana Foroohar argues that the concentration of artificial-intelligence data centres in Gulf states exposes global technology infrastructure to geopolitical risk. The argument follows a missile strike on a facility operated by Amazon in the United Arab Emirates during the conflict involving Iran. She notes that subsidies, cheap energy and geopolitical alignment encouraged American firms such as Microsoft and OpenAI to expand AI infrastructure in the region. But the Foroohar warns that concentrating critical computing capacity in a geopolitically volatile area could create vulnerabilities similar to the global semiconductor industry’s reliance on Taiwan.
FilteringAccount123 on
Petrostates wanting to translate their morbillions of oil money into something that isn’t oil.
samhit_n on
TBF, many of these Gulf countries were some of the safest in the world until last week. I heard that many countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc., have had less terrorist attacks than most Western countries in the last decade or so.
randommathaccount on
They had money, land, energy, and a willingness to build
wyldcraft on
The short answer, is the speed of light.
CuddleTeamCatboy on
They probably thought it was a good idea because Gulf states were willing to pay for them.
Hitmarkahz on
omg the energy needed to cool servers in 50c heat is just wild… maybe the cheap oil made everyone forget about physics for a minute lol.
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Because they have money and they want data centers built there?
Rana Foroohar argues that the concentration of artificial-intelligence data centres in Gulf states exposes global technology infrastructure to geopolitical risk. The argument follows a missile strike on a facility operated by Amazon in the United Arab Emirates during the conflict involving Iran. She notes that subsidies, cheap energy and geopolitical alignment encouraged American firms such as Microsoft and OpenAI to expand AI infrastructure in the region. But the Foroohar warns that concentrating critical computing capacity in a geopolitically volatile area could create vulnerabilities similar to the global semiconductor industry’s reliance on Taiwan.
Petrostates wanting to translate their morbillions of oil money into something that isn’t oil.
TBF, many of these Gulf countries were some of the safest in the world until last week. I heard that many countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc., have had less terrorist attacks than most Western countries in the last decade or so.
They had money, land, energy, and a willingness to build
The short answer, is the speed of light.
They probably thought it was a good idea because Gulf states were willing to pay for them.
omg the energy needed to cool servers in 50c heat is just wild… maybe the cheap oil made everyone forget about physics for a minute lol.