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    U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets - Amazon, Google and others struck deals in the Persian Gulf to foot the bill for A.I. development. Iran has now threatened attacks against the companies’ infrastructure in the region.
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    U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets – Amazon, Google and others struck deals in the Persian Gulf to foot the bill for A.I. development. Iran has now threatened attacks against the companies’ infrastructure in the region.


    U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets – Amazon, Google and others struck deals in the Persian Gulf to foot the bill for A.I. development. Iran has now threatened attacks against the companies’ infrastructure in the region.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/technology/amazon-google-persian-gulf-war.html

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    2. 3uphoric-Departure on

      Considering how intertwined these corporations are with the American military, they’re all valid targets

    4. MaksimilenRobespiere on

      They tried to avoid to pay taxes, but ended up paying in a different way.

    5. Mysterious-Oil-7094 on

      Don’t worry, the orange one will make sure they are reimbursed with our tax dollars and that they’re rewarded with future contracts.

    8. Simple_Assistance_77 on

      Ok, its called risk they pay premiums for this. Or entry strategies take into account this risk and others.

    9. ozairh18 on

      I love a majority of the comments share the same sentiment. Those tech giants are reaping what they sowed

    12. MilesSand on

      It’s almost like being a major part of the military industrial complex makes them key points of vulnerability to the military industrial complex.

    13. BetSquare7190 on

      Iran probably has done the worst they can do already to those installations in terms of drone and missile attacks. Their only remaining card, an and important one, is the closure of Hormuz, but that hurts them as well, and will contribute to their declining nuisance capacity.

    14. EmotionSideC on

      I mean that would be fine by me tbh. And probably a smart move for Iran to disable all of this AI warfare nonsense.

    18. sick-of-this-crap on

      The bad thing about it is that they are ensured in the region and since they are dod contractors, and if they’ll take damage, the insurance companies plus dod will most likely compensate the loses. Guess where the dod money is coming from.

    20. That_Jicama2024 on

      Iran, please take out the AI data centers in the middle east for us.

      Thanks

      – The Future of Humanity

    22. Debalic on

      So they moved the work that’s important to them to a geopolitical hotspot, then put into power the man who’s intent on lighting that powderkeg. Great plan.

    25. IngwiePhoenix on

      So first we consumers can’t buy stuff – and now its gonna get shredded in a war.

      And in all that time, it has served us… how, exactly? x)

      Now, I know this is not entirely fair. The Amazon UAE DC was part of AWS as far as I know and AWS is far more than just S3. But still, it… really does feel a little wasted.

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