White House publicizes AI knowledge campus partnership with the UAE

The U.S. and United Arab Emirates are partnering on an enormous artificial intelligence campus touted as the most important such facility outdoor the U.S., the White House stated Thursday.

The Abu Dhabi knowledge heart will probably be constructed by means of the Emirate company G42, which is able to spouse with a number of U.S. corporations at the facility, in keeping with the discharge from the Department of Commerce. It could have a 5-gigawatt capability and canopy 10 sq. miles.

The names of the U.S. corporations weren’t disclosed.

“In the UAE, American companies will operate the data centers and offer American-managed cloud services throughout the region,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik stated within the unencumber. “The agreement also contains strong security guarantees to prevent diversion of U.S. technology.”

The announcement comes as President Donald Trump visited the UAE as a part of a broader travel to the Middle East, the place he met with heads of state and introduced a number of offers.

The first section of the UAE mission features a 1-gigawatt AI knowledge heart.

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who attended the revealing with Trump, stated the partnership strengthens the area’s place “as a hub for cutting-edge research and sustainable development.”