Mohamed and Trump attend unveiling of 5GW AI campus

A new 5GW UAE-US AI Campus in Abu Dhabi was unveiled on Thursday at Qasr Al Watan in the presence of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and President Donald Trump of the United States of America, who is on a state visit to the UAE.

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The new Al campus, the largest outside the US, will be home to US hyperscalers and large enterprises that can leverage the capacity for regional "compute resources” with the ability to serve the Global South.

The UAE-US Al campus will include 5GW of capacity for Al data centres in Abu Dhabi, providing a regional platform from which US hyperscalers will be able to offer latency-friendly services to nearly half of the global population.

Once completed, the facility will leverage nuclear, solar, and gas power to minimise carbon emissions and will also house a science park driving advancements in Al innovation.

The campus will be built by G42 and operated in partnership with several US companies. The endeavour builds on a new framework by the two countries’ governments-the US-UAE Al Acceleration Partnership - to deepen cooperation and collaboration on Al and advanced technologies.

The UAE and US will work together to regulate access to the compute resources, which are reserved for US hyperscalers and approved cloud service providers.