Iran claims retaliatory drone strikes on US military facilities across the Middle East, following 13 nights of American attacks. This escalation comes as the US plans to use frozen Iranian assets for war damages, a move condemned by Iran, further intensifying tensions between the two nations.
Shell has revealed a surge in quarterly profits on the back of the Middle East conflict but also given an update on costly war damage to its output.
Shell has revealed a surge in quarterly profits on the back of the Middle East conflict but also given an update on costly war damage to its output.
Amazon Web Services said its data centers in the UAE and Bahrain will require several more months to repair after Iranian drone strikes damaged facilities in March 2026. The AWS regions ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-CENTRAL-1 remain unable to support customer applications, with full recovery potentially taking up to six months. Billing operations remain suspended during restoration, after AWS waived $150 million in March charges. An internal document revealed 14 EC2 server racks were knocked offline with additional flooding and cooling system failures.
Pure Data Centre Group has paused all Middle East project investments after an Iranian missile/drone attack damaged its Abu Dhabi facility, forcing Silicon Valley investors and tech companies to reconsider a trillion-dollar plan to build AI and cloud data centers in Gulf countries. The April attack on Pure DC's Yas Island campus was a near-miss, while AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were directly struck, causing widespread cloud service disruptions. Amazon waived $150 million in customer charges for March 2026, with operators bearing uninsurable war damage costs under civil law frameworks.
