A plan to build a campus and data centre for artificial intelligence in the UAE marks one of the world's largest computing infrastructure projects. Abu Dhabi AI company G42 has teamed up with technology giants OpenAI,

The project is a joint effort involving UAE state-backed G42, plus OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group, and Cisco.

The GB300 system that OpenAI’s UAE data center will use combines 72 Blackwell Ultra B300 chips with 36 of Nvidia Corp.’s Grace central processing units. Those CPUs collectively have 2,592 cores. The GPUs and CPUs are linked together by an Nvidia technology called NVLink C2C that can shuttle data between chips at a rate of 900 gigabytes per second.