Iran threatens 'Stargate' AI data centers
Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. Iran's military said that if the U.S. went ahead with its threats to hit its civilian infrastructure, the country would retaliate with its own strikes agai
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Iran threatens 'Stargate' AI data centers. Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. Iran's military said that if the U.S. went ahead with its threats to hit its civilian infrastructure, the country would retaliate with its own strikes against U.S.' energy and tech infrastructure in the region, according to a video released late last week and shared widely on Sunday of Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari. The video released by Iran shows an image of a globe, then zooming in on the Stargate.
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The latest threat comes after U.S. President Trump threatened to strike Iran's civilian infrastructure, like power plants and water desalination plants, by the end of Tuesday if Iran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping channel that has choked global supply chain traffic since the start of the war in February. Several data centers in the region have already been hit by missiles as a result of the war. Iranian missiles struck Amazon Web Services (AWS) data.
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