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A 49.5-megawatt data center is under construction on April 14, 2026, in Vernon, California. (Getty Images)
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Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on overseas duty in North Africa are reviewed by General Eisenhower, August 3, 1943 (Bettmann/Getty Images)
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President Trump announces he will not recertify the Iran deal, October 13, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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UN Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, September 21, 2017 (EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images)
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USAID supplies unloaded in Arbil, Kurdistan, September 2, 2014 (SAFIN HAMED/Getty Images)
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President Trump with National Security Adviser McMaster, Secretary of Defense Mattis, Vice President Pence, and Secretary of State Tillerson, September 7, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers after voting in the Kurdish independence referendum, September 25, 2017 (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Anti-settlements demonstrator interrupts David Friedman at a hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 16, 2016 (Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
