UAE revises AI data center plan after Iranian attacks, sources say
The United Arab Emirates is quietly revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data center project, one of the biggest outside the US, after the Iran war prompted a rethink of how and where critical infrastructure should be built, six people. Originally envisaged as a 10-square-mile (26-square-kilometer) campus in Abu Dhabi, the project will now likely comprise a network of data centers spread across the UAE, according to four of the sources.
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- 87 / 100
- Evidence
- Specialist editorial signal, probation review active
- Evidence strength
- 56 / 100 · Early
- Feed ranking
- 74 / 100 · confidence-adjusted
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