Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
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The outfit yesterday [1]annuonced its intention to create a 1GW Stargate UAE cluster in Abu Dhabi and expects 200MW worth of AI kit will go live in 2026.
Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco, and SoftBank are all aboard. OpenAI also stated “we greatly appreciate President Trump for his support in making it possible.”
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That’s a reference to the Trump administration’s recent [3]reversal of a Biden-era “AI Diffusion Rule” that limited chip exports to non-US companies.
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OpenAI said the new Stargate facility means the Emirates “will become the first country in the world to enable ChatGPT nationwide—giving people across the country the ability to access OpenAI's technology.”
That’s an odd one, given that ChatGPT is accessible from any browser.
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Interestingly, OpenAI also pointed out that “Stargate UAE has the potential to provide AI infrastructure and compute capacity within a 2,000-mile [3,200km] radius, reaching up to half the world’s population.”
The Register tried to verify that claim by asking ChatGPT to draw a map showing a 3,200 km radius from Abu Dhabi. Here’s the hilarious result that centers on Greece, not the Emirates.
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ChatGPT incorrectly drawing a map depicting a 3,200km radius from Abu Dhabi - Click to enlarge
The Register looks forward to AI-produced results like the above bringing enormous benefits to the UAE.
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Other nations can look forward to similar results, as OpenAI pointed out that this is the first collaboration in its “OpenAI for Countries” program that aims to deploy sovereign AI infrastructure in ten nations.
The UAE project brings to life a prediction Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made at Taiwan’s Computex conference this week, where he said AI infrastructure will likely be deployed to energy-rich nations including the Gulf states. Huang also mentioned Canada and Indonesia as likely targets for AI infrastructure and predicted token exports will become a substantial industry.
Unless, of course, they deliver maps like the above. ®
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Ahhh. So its only important to onshore American jobs if you haven't bribed the Orange one. Got it.
Any one else think the AI bubble bursting is going to make the Dot Com bubble look like a blip?
next US election....
Free brawndo drink with every vote :)
A spark of realism
" The Register looks forward to AI-produced results like the above bringing enormous benefits to the UAE. "
Nice one Simon!
Shakespeare might have been talking about LLMs, when he wrote " it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing . 1
1: Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
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Phew
Look on the bright side - a 3200km radius misses Blighty by some margin (especially if you centre it in the right place)
But how that includes “half the population of the world” is a mystery
Re: Phew
Especially as it does not touch north America and that IS the world
Since when is AI coverage based on distance?
Since when is AI coverage based on distance? Does it work like missiles? Does it become dumber with distance?
You've all got this wrong!
AI is working perfectly. AI stands for Artificial American Intelligence. The idea is to use computers to model the average American brain. And so this geographic knowledge is perfectly on point. ChatGPT is simulating accurately.
The problems will really start when it's put in charge of manufacturing processes, and asked to make cheese.
Ahh...
The Abu Dhabi bar and grill in downtown Athens.
I sometimes think we're being sold a pup with this AI malarkey, but I could be wrong. Pmsl.
Can we have a scale for AI accuracy... I'm thinking it should be in Farages.
The lower the Farages the more accurate it is.
Eg 1 Farage is pretty sound but 10 Farages is mad.