Iran war highlights the vulnerabilities of AI data centers

US-Israel and Iranian strikes have targeted commercial data centres across the Persian Gulf, signalling that critical AI infrastructure is now a direct military objective. The article raises the question of who protects these facilities and how, given their centrality to both military operations and civilian digital services. If your AI model or application runs on shared cloud infrastructure in the Middle East or anywhere near a conflict zone, you now have a kinetic risk that insurance and contracts don't yet price. You need geographic redundancy and isolation from military targets — or your service goes dark the moment a missile lands.