The Middle East boasts cheap energy and large masses of land, which has brought nearly $300 billion in projected AI investments in the Gulf. But the U.S. and Israeli-led war on Iran is forcing a reevaluation of data center security, location strategies, and supply chains.

Nuclear power is the only carbon-free, 24/7 baseload power capable of meeting the massive energy and 5-9s (99.999%) reliability demands of modern data centers, but collocating data centers with nuclear plants is extremely complex and legally fraught with regulatory and liability issues, as well as very intricate contractual arrangements for …

After a week of reporting by RCRTech and RCRWireless on Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the biggest takeaway in terms of AI infrastructure is that AI is moving from the data center to the network edge, with a lot of news about the shift to “AI-native,” software-defined infrastructure designed for …