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Gulf Cloud and AI Build-Out

The construction of large-scale cloud and AI computing capacity across the Gulf states, much of it backed by sovereign funds and hyperscaler partnerships.

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AWS ran out of options for the data left in Bahrain when the second zone failed

AWS's status update says the strike damage exceeded what its regional and multi-AZ services were built to withstand. Customers who held data in a single zone in Bahrain or in mec1-az2 are being told it is not coming back.

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Builder 27%
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Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 36%

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Evidence68
Adoption52
Hype gap−12
Incentives72
Confidence66