Over the past two months, I have been gradually rolling out a new initiative, The Gulf AI Monitor, a platform dedicated to examining the development, politics, and security of artificial intelligence across the Gulf Cooperation Council states.
The initiative has two layers.
First, the Monitor’s written analysis will be available to all readers. I will also be publishing more public analysis through the platform and will soon issue a call for contributions from researchers and practitioners working on AI and the Gulf. This aims to be a regularly updated public/foreign policy style publication.
The second layer is a pay-for-access GCC AI data platform for researchers, institutions, and policymakers. It provides a comprehensive intelligence platform mapping the GCC AI ecosystems, including a large and growing corpus of data on U.S. and Chinese investments, GCC investments, hyperscaler partnerships, infrastructure maps, interactive dashboards, and in-depth country deep dives into every GCC country’s AI ecosystem and across the stack.
The first data product I am releasing publicly is a map of reported attacks against AI data centers in the Persian Gulf during Operation Epic Fury. The map helps visualize the geographic distribution of these attacks and where Iran has, so far, concentrated its targeting of AI infrastructure.
As data centers and computing capacity become increasingly important to GCC futures and diversification strategies, understanding how this infrastructure is exposed to conflict will become increasingly urgent.
Feel free to see the full tool, here.
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