An Iranian missile strike on March 1 targeted the Gulf region, with one missile hitting an Amazon data center in the UAE, causing a fire and power outage that disrupted approximately 60 cloud services. Among the affected services was Claude, one of the world's largest AI models, which experienced a global outage. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, attributed the disruption to a surge in user traffic overwhelming their servers. The incident follows a joint U.S.-Israel airstrike on Iran that reportedly used Claude for intelligence analysis, leading to speculation about the data center's role in military operations. This marks a significant moment in history, as it could be the first instance of a commercial data center being destroyed in a conflict. The attack highlights the vulnerability of AI infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts, raising questions about the security of data centers that host critical AI models.