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The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target

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The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. The original idea was a single campus covering ten square miles of desert outside Abu Dhabi, roughly 26 square kilometres of computing in one…

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  1. 2026-09-11 12:02 · The Next Web
    The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target

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