The escalating conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran is beginning to spill beyond the battlefield and into the global technology race, with Chinese analysts warning that Washington’s flagship US$500 billion Stargate AI Project could face major disruption as instability spreads across the Gulf.
Iran’s reported attacks on data centres in the United Arab Emirates had exposed the vulnerability of America’s overseas AI infrastructure ambitions Chinese media reported citing analysts at the China Macroeconomy Forum in Beijing. The experts raised broader questions about whether geopolitical conflicts could derail the next phase of the global artificial intelligence boom.
