According to a new Bloomberg report, Openai is ready to help develop a shocking 5-gigwat data center in Abu Dhabi, which keeps the company as a primary anchor tenant as a primary anchor tenant.
The feature will reportly to be a surprisingly spread at a distance of 10 square miles and consume equal power to five nuclear reactors, which will dwarf any existing AI infrastructure declared by OpenAEE or its contestants. (Openai has not yet refunded the request of Techcrunch for comment, but to keep it in perspective, it is larger than Monaco.)
The UAE Project, G42- An Abu Dhabi-based tech group developed in partnership-is part of the ambitious Stargate project of OpseaEI, a joint venture announced in January created OpenI, SoftBank and Oracle to build large-scale data centers worldwide, which was stocked with powerful computer chips to support AI development.
While the first Stargate complex of OpenaiI in the US – already under the development in Abiline, Texas – is expected to reach 1.2 GW, the Middle Eastern equivalent will be greater than that capacity.
The project is emerging between a wide AI relations between the US and the UAE that have taken place over the years, and some MPs have been harassed.
Openai’s relationship with the UAE is back to the 2023 partnership with G42 for the purpose of adopting AI East in the Middle East. During one thing in the same year in Abu Dhabi, OpenEE CEO Sam Altman praised the UAE, saying “it is talking about AI before it calms down.”
With most of the AI world, these relationships … are complex. Established in 2018, G42 is presided over by Sheikh Tahun Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor to UAE and younger brother of the country’s ruler. Its embrace by Openai raised concerns among US authorities at the end of 2023, who feared that the G42 could enable the Chinese government to achieve access to advanced American technology.
These concerns focused on the “active relationships” of G42, including Huawei and Beijing Genomics Institute, as well as relationships with individuals associated with China’s intelligence efforts.
Following the pressure from US MPs, the G42 CEO told Bloomberg in early 2024 that the company was changing its strategy, saying: “All our China investments that were already made, are already divided. Because,, because of this, of course, we have no need for the presence of any physical China.”
Soon after, a lead shareholder in Microsoft – Openai announced an investment of $ 1.5 billion in G42 with his comprehensive interests in the field, and its chairman, Brad Smith, joined the board of G42.
