Even as conflict reshapes the Middle East's geopolitical landscape, the region's appetite for energy investment has not retreated — it has intensified. Mitsubishi Power's Javier Cavada observes that governments and investors are not waiting for the dust to settle; they are positioning for the world that comes after. The engine driving this urgency is artificial intelligence, whose hunger for electricity and water is unlike anything industrial civilization has previously generated. The question now is whether the Gulf's ambition to become a global AI hub can be reconciled with the decarbonizati