Companies leading the AI infrastructure build-out are scrambling to stand up data centers worldwide to meet crushing demand for computing capacity. But a key part of that plan — Middle East expansion — has hit a hurdle due to the war in Iran. The Middle East offers benefits for the power-hungry data centers in spades: easy access to abundant energy, wide swaths of open land, government-backed development efforts, and perhaps most crucially, deep-pocketed sovereign wealth funds. US technology companies such as Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), meanwhile, have supplied the chips, cloud platforms, and AI models. (AMZN ) Go deeper with AlphaSpace 249.67 +0.29 (+0.
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