Nvidia, Cisco and OpenAI are backing the UAE Stargate information heart undertaking

U.S. tech giants Nvidia, Cisco and OpenAI are supporting the “UAE Stargate” artificial intelligence information heart introduced this week, a supply acquainted with the deal showed Friday.

Nvidia will provide {hardware} with the most recent Blackwell GB300 programs.

The information heart will collaborate with the AI infrastructure undertaking of the similar title within the U.S. introduced by way of President Donald Trump in a while after his inauguration.

The Abu Dhabi information heart, which used to be introduced by way of the Trump management on Thursday, shall be constructed by way of the Emirati company G42. The large campus could have 5-gigawatt capability and canopy 10 sq. miles.

Trump used to be within the UAE as a part of a primary international shuttle in a foreign country in his 2d time period. Trump additionally visited Saudi Arabia.

The first section of UAE Stargate features a 1-gigawatt compute cluster.

OpenAI introduced in February that it used to be taking into account development U.S. Stargate information heart campuses in 16 states that had indicated “real interest” within the undertaking.

The 16 states have been Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.

Construction at the information heart in Abilene, Texas, is these days underway and is anticipated to be finished in mid-2026.

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