View: Data centers under fire test Gulf sovereign AI ambitions

View: Data centers under fire test Gulf sovereign AI ambitions

Winston Ma’s viewAt the Future Investment Initiative summit in Miami in late March, geopolitics and technology investing collided in a single, blunt warning, when US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff said the region faced a “risk premium” from the threat of infrastructure such as data centers being “blown up.”To understand why the Gulf’s investment thesis will survive data centers being bombed, we must recognize that these facilities are not simp…