Paris, France, March 2, 2026 (AFP) - Amazon data centre hit highlights Gulf infrastructure vulnerability: experts

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Amazon's announcement that one of its Gulf data centres had been struck by "objects" in fallout from the US-Israel war against Iran highlights the vulnerability of the criticial computing infrastructure, experts told AFP. Cut off from the power grid and suffering fire damage, it was not immediately clear whether the Amazon facility in the United Arab Emirates was deliberately targeted or damaged by falling debris. But the incident showed that the......

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