Iran war: Billions of dollars at risk for US tech companies
Iran’s threat against US technology companies in the Gulf region could expose billions of dollars in digital infrastructure to war risks, potentially disrupting the global technology economy, experts said.
On Wednesday, the Iranian force issued a warning that it would target infrastructure of companies such as Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia and Oracle in the Middle East/Israel.
The Gulf currently hosts more than 70 data centres with an estimated 557-738 megawatts of live IT capacity. This includes 10 cloud regions operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Alibaba.
