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businesses it accuses of aiding in the war.

Among those named are Microsoft, Google, Intel, Tesla and Boeing.

The attacks will reportedly commence at 8 p.m.

local time, which would be around 12.30 p.m.

Eastern.

Iran warned employees of the companies it named to leave their workplaces.

The White House responded that the U.S.

military is prepared to curtail the attacks.

If Iran follows through on its threats, it would be reminiscent of the war's early days when drones damaged three Amazon data centers in the Gulf.

The attacks highlighted vulnerabilities, especially for tech companies.

Data centers are large complexes and not protected against military attacks.

Cloud computing networks have redundancies, but can suffer outages if multiple locations go offline.

I'm Novosafo for Marketplace.

Marketplace's Nova Safo starts us off.

Before the war in Iran, the global economy was on a relatively strong footing.

Ishwar Prasad, professor of economics at Cornell, says economies have been benefiting from AI infrastructure spending and lower overall tariff rates in the U.S.

after the Supreme Court struck down a bunch of them.

That shock, of course, is the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The OECD's figures underscore Prasad's point.

It's projecting slightly slower global growth than expected, but still growth at 2.9%.