OpenAI commits to giant UAE data centre in global expansion

OpenAI commits to giant UAE data centre in global expansion
Open AI's Sam Atlman. (Image: Getty)
The Washington Post
By Eliot BrownOpenAI said it was partnering with United Arab Emirates firm G42 and others to build a huge artificial-intelligence (AI) data centre in Abu Dhabi, the ChatGPT maker’s first large-scale project outside the US.A Gulf state’s AI ambitionsOpenAI and G42 said on Thursday that the data centre would have a capacity of 1 gigawatt, putting it among the most powerful in the world.The project, called Stargate UAE, is part of a broader push by the UAE to become one of the world’s biggest funders of AI companies and infrastru...

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