Note to Self: Do Not Build Global Critical Infrastructure in the Middle East
A point that didn’t fit in today’s already-long Morning Jolt about data center construction, relating to security concerns…
Back in July 2025, Christopher S. Chivvis and Sam Winter-Levy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote in the Washington Post that a Trump administration-approved plan to build massive artificial intelligence data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia was a deeply flawed idea. They warned the plan would “put a central node of the world’s future AI infrastructure in locations highly vulnerable to attack from........
