Recommendable! Nice description of events!
I think it was a pretty stupid decision by Iran to attack these data centers of the Gulf States!
"Iran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.
What happened: Iranian drones damaged an Amazon Web Services (AWS) facility in Bahrain and two in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), disrupting online services including banking, payments, ride sharing, food delivery, and business software. The U.S. military uses AWS to run the unclassified version of Anthropic Claude and possibly other computing systems, but it didn’t disclose whether the attacks affected its operations.
Drone attacks: Early on March 1, drones struck two AWS data centers in the UAE, and the Bahrain data center suffered damage shortly afterward. Amazon said the Bahrain attack was “a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities,” while Iran said it had targeted the facility “to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities,” according to Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency via the messaging service Telegram.
The data centers suffered structural damage, power disruptions, and water damage caused by firefighters, which resulted in service outages and higher-than-normal error rates. As of March 3, Amazon recommended that its cloud-computing customers back up data and move workloads from AWS Middle East Region to the U.S., Europe, or Asia Pacific.
The attacks put at risk trillions of dollars of investments to build AI hubs in the Persian Gulf region, The New York Times reported.
Member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an economic union and military alliance that includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, host 2.0 gigawatts of data center capacity, with an additional 0.4 gigawatts planned, Business Insider reported.
Behind the news: The risk to data centers mirrors a rise in AI’s role in warfare. Despite the U.S. military’s recent decision to ban defense uses of Anthropic’s Claude large language model, U.S. forces routinely use Claude and other systems for a variety of purposes in Iran and elsewhere. For its part, Iran uses weaponized drones that have some degree of autonomy.
Claude was part of a system that helped select more than 1,000 targets during the initial 24 hours of the U.S. war on Iran, enabling U.S. forces to vastly accelerate the pace of strikes, The Washington Post reported. Claude is integrated with Maven Smart System (MSS), a system for targeting and logistics built by Palantir. ..."
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