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Data obtained and analyzed by "Arabi Post" on the map of cloud service centers and areas (information centers) in the Middle East and North Africa exposed that the area's nations rely greatly on American business for cloud services. The information shows the existence of around 31 American centers, the majority of them in Gulf nations, while the number of centers owned by Chinese companies reached about 7.

In the Gulf countries, more than 53% of the cloud facilities tracked there is American. Source: "Arabi Post" database of cloud service centers in the Middle East and North Africa (89 centers).

Within a few years, cloud service centers have actually moved from a "technical option" for decreasing server costs into critical infrastructure for the state and the economy: e-government websites, payment and banking systems, health and education platforms, and the operation of huge data, artificial intelligence, and more. But the recent Iran war (2026) exposed a brand-new dimension: the cloud itself can be straight and physically targeted, as happened when Iranian drone strikes harmed Amazon AWS cloud service information centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing disturbances and service interruptions.

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The significance of American and foreign business does not stop at technical competitors or service quality; it extends to digital sovereignty and questions of control over data for these nations and their various delicate sectors. American business undergo U.S. laws regulating legal access to data, such as the CLOUD Act, raising concerns about the limitations of judicial ask for information even when it is kept outside the United States.

"CLOUD Act" (March 2018): Section 2713 explicitly obliges interactions and computing service suppliers to preserve and reveal subscriber data within their "possession, custody, or control, regardless of whether it is situated within or outside the United States" validating the point above., as presented by U.S

At the very same time, experts contacted by "Arabi Post" alert of the risks of concentrating agreements with American cloud service companies, and of the impact of "foreign jurisdiction" on personal privacy and security.

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citizens or residents who communicate with people or organizations in those nations where data centers operated by American companies save the information of those nations and their people. To comprehend the scope of this threat, it is needed to first analyze U.S. federal laws such as FISA Section 702 and the CLOUD Act, which governs U.S.

Although the CLOUD Act grants Washington broad authority to gain access to data stored in data centersthe large-scale facilities used by companies to store and procedure informationin some cases, under the Act, U.S. authorities may be required to inform the federal government of the nation concerned that there is a legal basis engaging access to that data.

The U.S. government could likewise punish or target any U.S. resident who takes part in monetary transactions with that nation or sends money transfers to individuals there. Abu Al-Saad likewise says that if a conflict were to take place between that country and Washington, the United States might suspend its information storage services for that country and justify doing so.

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This would affect all sectors, consisting of financial and banking services. In the context of the security risks linked to countries' dependence on American data centers, another point likewise emergesone that Ibtihal Abu Al-Saad considers the most crucial and most dangerous: the U.S. legal and intelligence tool known as "National Security Letters" (NSLs).

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federal intelligence and security companies. Under these letters, U.S. authorities have the capability to compel major innovation companies to turn over sensitive information related to citizens or nations. Washington could, for instance, force Amazon to open data records coming from users in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, or somewhere else, while "imposing a strict nondisclosure order that prevents the technology business from notifying the Bahraini federal government or the targeted individuals that this access has happened.