The Open AI is ready to help build a surprising 5 Gigwat data center campus in Abu Dhabi, in which the company has been positioned as a primary anchor tenant, which can become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure project. Bloomberg’s report.
The facility will have a surprising 10 square mile distance and will use the equivalent of five nuclear reactors, reducing any existing AI infrastructure announced by the Open AI or its rivals. (Open has not yet returned the application for Tech Crunch Opinion, but to put it in the point, it’s bigger than Monaco.)
The United Arab Emirates Project, developed in partnership with G42-is a part of the Tech Party-based Tech Party-based Star Gate Project in Abu Dhabi, which is announced in January, with powerful computer chips to support the development of Open AI, Soft Bank, and Oracle AI.
Although Open’s first star Gate Campus – already under development in Texas’ Abelin, is expected to reach 1.2 GW, but these Middle East counterparts will exceed four times.
The project has emerged between the wider AI relations between the United States and the United Arab Emirates, which have been for years to build, and some lawmakers have been panicked.
Openi’s relationship with the United Arab Emirates is a 2023 contributions The purpose of adopting AI in the Middle East with G42 is aimed at. In a conversation in Abu Dhabi earlier this year, Open CEO Sam Altman praised the United Arab Emirates, saying “have been talking about AI Since it was cool before.
Like most AI’s world, these relationships… are complicated. Established in 2018, the G42 was led by the United Arab Emirates National Security Advisor and the ruler of the country’s ruler Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Openi’s throat raised concerns among US officials at the end of 2023, fearing that the G42 could enable the Chinese government. Get access to modern US technology.
These concerns focused on G42’s “.Active relationship“Along with the Black Listed organizations, including the Huawei and the Beijing Genomix Institute, as well as those associated with China’s intelligence efforts.
After the pressure from US lawmakers, CEO of G42 Told Bloomberg In early 2024, the company was changing its strategy, saying: “All our investment that was earlier has already been divided. Of course, because of this, we do not need any physical chain presence.”
Immediately afterwards, Microsoft – an important shareholder at the Open, who has its wider interests in the region. Investing $ 1.5 billion In G42, and its president, Brad Smith, joined the board of directors of G42.