The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering building underground data centers amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, while many organizations are moving their data storage outside the country, sources familiar with the matter said, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.

In March, NBC had reported that one of Amazon’s cloud computing data centers in the UAE was down after being hit. Amazon Web Services later had reported damage to its infrastructure in Bahrain.

To allay concerns about potential attacks, UAE officials have floated the idea of building underground data centers and installing drone defense systems near computing complexes, the WSJ stated. It added, however, that such an initiative would further increase the already enormous costs of building such centers.

But according to the WSJ, the opposite trend is currently observed: data are being moved outside the UAE.

Industry experts note that the UAE, which usually has a strict policy on data sovereignty of local companies, has allowed some organizations to move their data abroad while Amazon is busy restoring its facility in the country.