‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower
TL;DR
Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare It is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of a country at war. At 4.30am on Sunday morning, an Iranian Shahed 136 drone struck an Amazon Web Services datacentre in the United Arab Emirates, setting off a devastating fire and forcing a shutdown of the power supply. Further damage was inflicted as attempts were made to suppress the flames with water. Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
If you still treat your cloud like a glorified API, the Shahed wake-up call just nuked that delusion. This shift proves the next KI shockwave hits hardware first—missiles, not training data.
Add missile defense to your release plan or the next outage rewrites your roadmap.
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