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The Manifest Under the Compute Cluster

The Gulf's sovereign-AI pitch to Washington is correct on the compute and premature on the data. A 90 per cent contraction at Jebel Ali since February has redirected container flows through Khor Fakkan and Fujairah, where AI customs engines are now processing manifest data whose residency and governance have not been disclosed. The sovereignty claim does not survive the first serious information request a regulator would make about whose model is reading the paperwork.