{"id":229693,"date":"2026-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/silicon-valleys-bad-bet-on-the-gulf\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:10:14","slug":"silicon-valleys-bad-bet-on-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/silicon-valleys-bad-bet-on-the-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s Bad Bet on the Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/persian-gulf\/silicon-valleys-bad-bet-gulf\">Silicon Valley\u2019s Bad Bet on the Gulf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/persian-gulf\/silicon-valleys-bad-bet-gulf\">https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/persian-gulf\/silicon-valleys-bad-bet-gulf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.foreignaffairs.com\">www.foreignaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In May 2025, President Donald Trump announced $2.2 trillion in bilateral deals with Gulf nations focusing on AI infrastructure, involving U.S. defense and economic partnerships.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement attracted American technology companies due to cheap energy, access to sovereign wealth funds, lower regulatory barriers, and U.S. government approvals for restricted chip sales.<\/li>\n<li>The infrastructure supporting this technology is now at risk due to regional conflicts, specifically attacks by Iran on AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain using Shahed drones.<\/li>\n<li>The disruption of submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea threatens data traffic between Asia, Europe, and the Gulf.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. bet on the Gulf for AI infrastructure is now considered a mistake due to vulnerabilities exposed by recent attacks.<\/li>\n<li>Companies and users of this infrastructure are facing significant short-term and potentially long-term costs and risks.<\/li>\n<li>The framework for Gulf AI build-out, mainly designed for peacetime technology competition, did not adequately prepare for physical security threats.<\/li>\n<li>The situation calls for reassessing current projects&#8217; viability and costs, while planning future investments in more secure locations.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. companies are increasingly relocating sensitive workloads to safer regions and enhancing insurance coverage.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. government should redirect AI investments to safer regions while reinforcing agreements that serve U.S. economic and national security interests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s Bad Bet on the Gulf https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/persian-gulf\/silicon-valleys-bad-bet-gulf Publish Date: 2026-06-11 00:00:00 Source Domain: www.foreignaffairs.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-live.foreignaffairs.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_share\/public\/images\/2026\/06\/10\/2026-03-01T151228Z_1414776294_RC2PVJAYENZP_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-GULF-EMIRATES.JPG?itok=9-XpZ8nq","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229697,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229693\/revisions\/229697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}