I find it more likely that Anthropic has rented space in other data centers in the region that were also impacted by Iranian retaliation

Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?

> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1]

> Strikes hit AWS datacenter

> Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...