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Millions Affected as ChatGPT Outage Goes Global After UAE Hit
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Iranian military strikes on AWS data centres in the UAE have caused global ChatGPT outages and cascading failures across Claude, Grok, and Gemini. Iran has publicly identified OpenAI's Stargate facility in Abu Dhabi as a legitimate target as part of broader escalation with U.S.-Israeli forces.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models and Cloud Infrastructure.
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If your AI product runs on AWS West Asia or depends on centralised cloud in contested regions, you now have a geopolitical single point of failure. The strike proved it: half the world's AI services went dark because they shared three data centre nodes.
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