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US tech giant Oracle’s offices in Dubai have been damaged by falling debris, the city’s media outlet reported on Sunday, as Iran continues to fire projectiles at targets around the Middle East in retaliation for US and Israeli attacks.
“Authorities can confirm that they responded to a minor accident caused by debris from an aerial interceptor that fell on the facade of the Oracle Building in Dubai Internet City,” Dubai Media Office said in a post on X. No one was injured in the incident, the media office said.
Oracle did not immediately respond to CNBC’s email request for comment.
A CNBC journalist in Dubai reported hearing multiple interceptions overnight.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has threatened to attack a series of U.S. tech companies operating in the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
The Guard warned on Tuesday that 18 tech companies would be considered “legitimate targets” in retaliation for the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran.
“From now on, every time an assassination occurs, an American business will be destroyed,” they said on the Guard-affiliated Telegram channel.
The list of companies also includes Cisco, HP, Intel, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing, and UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42.
James Henderson, CEO of risk management firm Helix, said the growing threat to tech companies is not a flash in the pan, but an ongoing pattern.
“Technology assets are now being treated as part of the conflict, not on the periphery of the conflict,” Henderson told CNBC.
“This also suggests that future crises may target data centers and cloud platforms as well as traditional strategic locations,” he added.
Iran attacked Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East in early March, disrupting many apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates.
