The 5-gigawatt (GW) UAE-US AI Campus, announced during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Abu Dhabi in May, aims to help US hyperscalers — so-called because of their capacity to leverage massive amounts of computing power — deliver faster, more reliable service to the roughly 2.9 billion people, a third of the global population, who live within 2,000 miles of the UAE.
One GW is already committed: OpenAI, alongside joint partners Abu Dhabi’s MGX, Japan’s Softbank, and Oracle, said shortly after Trump’s visit that the group’s first Stargate data center outside the US would be built there.
The 1-gigawatt project will use Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, currently the most advanced AI platform Nvidia offers, and be the first phase of the UAE-US AI Campus, rolled out sometime in 2026.
Stargate got much of the attention when the UAE-US AI Campus was announced, but is slated to represent just 20% of the project’s total scope.
