What is Stargate UAE, Abu Dhabi's AI campus
Announced in May 2025, Stargate UAE is a planned five-gigawatt AI campus in Abu Dhabi built with OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco and SoftBank, the first Stargate project outside the US.
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Gulf technology agendas: Vision 2030 projects, startups, chips and AI adoption.
What is the UAE's AI strategy
The UAE appointed the world's first AI minister in 2017 and targets AED 230 billion of annual AI contribution to GDP by 2030; the Stargate campus is the strategy's biggest artifact.
What is HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia's AI company
Launched by the Public Investment Fund in May 2025, HUMAIN builds data centres, cloud and Arabic models with ambitions around $100 billion and partners from NVIDIA to AWS.
G42 signs $1 billion sovereign AI deal in Vietnam
Abu Dhabi's G42 agreed on February 9, 2026 to a $1 billion programme building sovereign AI and data infrastructure across Vietnam with local partners, its largest Southeast Asia commitment.