The Gulf wants to break free from the world’s data chokepoints
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FORTUNE — The GCC’s AI ambitions are creating a parallel infrastructure race—Gulf countries and telecom companies are trying not only to build enough computing power, but also to control the fibre and cable networks that carry the resulting data.
Currently, over 90% of Europe–Asia data and telecommunications traffic flows through Egypt and the subsea cable corridors converging at the Red Sea and Suez Canal region.
Today’s geopolitical instability is making the construction of alternative routes a strategic imperative.
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