Five attacks on Gulf data centers have now been confirmed since the conflict escalated. The strikes are widely interpreted as retaliation against perceived U.S. military and intelligence support routed through commercial tech infrastructure. Alongside the physical strikes, Iranian authorities published a list of 29 technology targets spanning the Gulf and Israel. Hut 8 secured a 15-year lease for an AI data center valued at $9.8 billion, with options that could push the total commitment to $25.1 billion. Core Scientific is pursuing $3.3 billion in financing to operate six AI centers leased to CoreWeave.