Overview
- Qatar unveiled Qai as a Qatar Investment Authority subsidiary tasked with building secure AI infrastructure, high‑performance computing and tools for responsible deployment at national and international scale.
- Abu Dhabi’s multi‑gigawatt AI campus is moving through visible construction, with plans for data centres totaling five gigawatts to serve users across a roughly 3,200‑kilometre radius.
- Phase one of the campus, the one‑gigawatt Stargate UAE cluster built by G42, is set to be operated by OpenAI and backed by Oracle, Cisco and Nvidia, alongside Microsoft’s plan to invest more than $15.2 billion in the UAE by 2029 after a $1.5 billion stake in G42.
- The UAE reports more than $147 billion committed to AI since 2024, including up to €50 billion for a one‑gigawatt data centre project in France, as it scales domestic research and education capacity through MBZUAI and national programs.
- Recent U.S. approvals for exports of advanced Nvidia chips to G42 and Saudi Arabia’s Humain have opened procurement channels, while the World Bank urges policies on competition, worker reskilling and environmental safeguards.