Nvidia Teams Up With G42 for #UAE Data Centers in Mideast AI Push - Bloomberg

Nvidia Teams Up With G42 for UAE Data Centers in Mideast AI Push - Bloomberg

Nvidia Corp. will collaborate with a G42 unit to build data centers powered by its Blackwell chips, a sign of how the United Arab Emirates’ access to the latest generation of semiconductors has improved since US President Donald Trump’s May trip to the Middle East.

Khazna, a data center developer majority-owned by G42, plans to use the chips to develop artificial intelligence clusters of as much as 250 megawatts, Khazna said in a statement Wednesday. Nvidia certified the design of the facilities to support its Blackwell architecture, it said.

G42, an AI company overseen by UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has also partnered with OpenAI in a major overseas expansion of the ChatGPT maker’s Stargate effort to build AI infrastructure. The UAE and Saudi Arabia have made AI data centers central to their economic diversification strategies, setting off an expensive race to build warehouses that store servers and cutting-edge chips.

Trump announced a flurry of AI deals during his May visit to the Middle East, spurring concerns that the projects could put US control over the sophisticated chips used to develop and train models that can mimic human intelligence at risk.

Many of the planned data centers will be built in the joint US-UAE 5-gigawatt cluster planned for Abu Dhabi, Khazna said. The company plans as much as one gigawatt of capacity across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, it added.