Datacenters need four things: power, water, cooling, and access to the WAN. A dry desert environment is not very conducive to datacenter operations with regard

Datacenters need four things: power, water, cooling, and access to the WAN. A dry desert environment is not very conducive to datacenter operations with regards to those first three items. If you’re located close to the sea or an ocean, at least there’s a possibility of getting water, albeit perhaps through expensive reverse osmosis. But then you’re operating in a more humid environment where certain types of cooling systems won’t work well, because they depend on water evaporation to function. If you’re building a multigigawatt AI datacenter, those are two types of environments that you want to avoid. So, whether it’s Houston Texas or the UAE, I think that’s a very poor location for a datacenter.