The Gulf’s AI nightmare came courtesy of an Iranian drone

DUBAI—The day after the U.S. and Israel launched their opening strikes on Iran, the Islamic Republic shot back with swarms of drones aimed at the Gulf’s newest high-value targets: American data centers. More than six months after the barrage, a damaged Amazon Web Services facility in Abu Dhabi and another one in Bahrain are still mostly offline. The company has told clients to move their data to other regions while it repairs the sites and hasn’t given a date for completing the work. The attacks and lasting damage are complicating the pitch by Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates...