Big Tech is building AI in the desert. The water may not last Rest of World By: Divsha Bhat 4 August 2025 at 05:00 The Gulf’s trillion-dollar race to become an artificial-intelligence superpower faces the region’s biggest challenge: water. Data centers powering AI across the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are consuming water... © Maurice Haas/13PHOTO/ReduxDubai, Wüstenstadt