Opinion | AI infrastructure on the front line: Lessons for Asean from the Iran war
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Read the original article: https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3347725/ai-infrastructure-fron…
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2 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“Iran warned that US tech companies with Israeli links, including Google, Microsoft, Palantir, Nvidia and Oracle, were on Tehran’s list of 'legitimate targets' for countermeasures.”
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The provided Wikipedia evidence discusses Iran-Israel conflicts and 2026 war events but does not mention specific US tech companies with Israeli links being listed as targets. No direct confirmation of the claim's specifics is found in the cited sources.
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— On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war with surprise airstrikes on sites and cities across Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials as we…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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— The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
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— Iran and Israel have been engaged in a proxy conflict since 1985. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli–Palestinian confli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_proxy_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_proxy_conflict
“The data centres and algorithms that underwrite banking, healthcare, education and public administration for millions of civilians could also double as military targets for destruction.”
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No relevant evidence was found in web searches or Wikipedia to support or refute the claim about data centres/algorithms being military targets.
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