James Corera , Jason Van der Schyff
When Iranian drones struck hyperscale cloud data-centre facilities in the United Arab Emirates and damaged infrastructure near Bahrain on 1 March, they did not just target military bases. They also targeted server farms. That distinction matters more than it might appear.
For decades, data centres were treated as oversized commercial warehouses. Today they underpin government identity systems, financial networks, logistics chains and the AI-enabled targeting and intelligence platforms that define modern military advantage. The integration of companies such as Anthropic and Palantir into US and allied defence applications—fusing large-language-model reasoning with operational data to accelerate targeting cycles and intelligence synthesis—runs on exactly this infrastructure. And that infrastructure is physical. It appears on satellite imagery. It has addresses, power feeds, cooling systems and fibre runs. It can be hit.
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