{"id":155291,"date":"2025-11-23T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:13:30","slug":"uae-plans-to-invest-1-billion-in-african-ai-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155291\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Plans to Invest $1 Billion in African AI Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The United Arab Emirates plans to invest $1 billion to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure and services across Africa, bolstering its influence on a continent that\u2019s lagged behind the rest of the world in adopting the technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The investment will help develop digital infrastructure, improve government services and enhance productivity, Saeed bin Mubarak Al Hajeri, UAE minister of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates plans to invest $1 billion to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure and services across Africa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[255,220,218,219,29298,8759,87596,1523,61,4082,60,20596,3400,80,36222],"class_list":{"0":"post-155291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-developing-countries","13":"tag-foreign-affairs","14":"tag-g-20","15":"tag-government","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-infrastructure","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-johannesburg","20":"tag-renewable-energy","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}