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Stargate UAE: 1GW OpenAI cluster planned in Abu Dhabi, first 200MW due in 2026
G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco and SoftBank announced a 1GW AI cluster inside the 5GW UAE–US AI Campus unveiled a week earlier during President Trump's Gulf visit, with 200MW expected to go live in 2026. G42 builds it, OpenAI and Oracle operate it, and the deal includes reciprocal Emirati investment in US Stargate sites; OpenAI called it the first OpenAI for Countries project.
Why it matters
It tied US chip access to sovereign AI investment deals, a template for later US approvals of advanced-chip exports to the Gulf.
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- DevelopmentUS moves UAE into top export tier, opening licence-free AI chips to approved users10 Jul 2026 · Rule change · US, AELed to: Gives Stargate UAE operators licence-free chip access
- DevelopmentOpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX launch $500bn Stargate data-centre venture21 Jan 2025 · Deal · USSame programme: First international Stargate deployment
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- DevelopmentGoogle DeepMind's AlphaEvolve agent improves algorithms and open maths bounds14 May 2025 · Research · GB, US
- DevelopmentUS scraps AI Diffusion Rule and warns against using Huawei Ascend chips13 May 2025 · Rule change · US, CN
- DevelopmentNATO buys Palantir's Maven Smart System for its operational headquarters14 Apr 2025 · Procurement · INTL
- DevelopmentDeepSeek releases R1 reasoning model with open weights under MIT licence20 Jan 2025 · Model release · CN
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- DevelopmentWhite House publishes America's AI Action Plan and three executive orders23 Jul 2025 · Policy · US
- DevelopmentOpenAI signs 6GW AMD GPU deal and gets warrant for up to 160m AMD shares6 Oct 2025 · Deal · US
- DevelopmentNew Delhi Declaration on AI Impact endorsed by 88 states and bodies, incl. US and China21 Feb 2026 · Statement · IN, INTL
- DevelopmentKansas City Fed's Schmid asks whether the AI ecosystem is becoming too big to fail25 Sep 2026 · Statement · US
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What other countries and bodies did on this
- DevelopmentEU opens call for up to seven AI gigafactories in at least seven member states30 Jul 2026 · Programme · EU
- DevelopmentHuawei sets yearly Ascend AI-chip roadmap and 8,192-chip Atlas 950 SuperPoD18 Sep 2025 · Launch · CN
- DevelopmentIndia hosts AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, first in the series in the Global South16 Feb 2026 · Statement · IN, INTL
- DevelopmentFSB says AI monitoring in finance is immature, flags supplier concentration10 Oct 2025 · Report · INTL
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Laws and guidance this touches
- RuleNational AI Strategy 2031AE · In force · 21 Apr 2019
- RuleBIS H200 case-by-case ruleUS · In force · 15 Jan 2026
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