{"id":1034710,"date":"2026-09-12T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034710"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:48:13","slug":"uae-revises-ai-data-center-plan-after-iranian-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/uae-revises-ai-data-center-plan-after-iranian-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE revises AI data center plan after Iranian attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is quietly revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data center project &#8211; one of the biggest outside the U.S. &#8211; after the Iran war prompted a rethink of how and where critical infrastructure should be built, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Originally envisaged as a 10-square-mile (26-square-kilometer) campus in Abu Dhabi, the project will now likely comprise a network of data centers \u200bspread across the UAE, according to four of the sources, who all spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is quietly revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data center project &#8211; one of the biggest outside the U.S. &#8211; after the Iran war prompted a rethink of how and where critical infrastructure should be built, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Originally envisaged as a 10-square-mile (26-square-kilometer) campus in Abu Dhabi, the project will now likely comprise a network of data centers \u200bspread across the UAE, according to four of the sources, who all spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034751,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034710\/revisions\/1034751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}