OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
OpenAi is ready to help develop a stunning 5-gigawatt Data Center campus in Abu Dhabi, which placed the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new Bloomberg report.
The facility is said to be an amazing 10 square miles overstrain and consume power power that is equal to five nuclear reactors, which has announced every existing AI infrastructure by OpenAI or its competitors. (OpenAi has not returned the TechCrunch’s request to comment yet, but to put that in perspective, that is greater than Monaco.)
The VAE project, developed in collaboration with G42-one in Abu Dhabi-based tech-Conglomore is part of the ambitious Stargate project of OpenAI, a joint venture announced in January that has filled the open-bank and Oracle solid data centers around the world with powerful ai-developing.
While the first Stargate campus from OpenAi in the US – already in development in Abilene, Texas – is expected to reach 1.2 Gigawatt, this counterpart in the middle would be more than fourfold in the middle.
The project is on the rise in the middle of wider AI tires between the US and the VAE that have been in the making for years, and have made some legislators nervous.
OpenAi’s relationship with the VAE dates from one 2023 Partnership With G42 aimed at stimulating AI adoption in the middle east. During a lecture earlier that same year in Abu Dhabi, Sam Altman praised the CEO of OpenAi de Vae and said it spoke about AI Since then it was cool. “
As with many of the AI world, these relationships are … complicated. G42, founded in 2018, will be chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the national security adviser of the VAE and younger brother of the ruler of the country. At the end of 2023, the embrace by OpenAi brought concern to American officials, who feared that G42 could be able to the Chinese government gaining access to advanced American technology.
These worries were aimed at G42s “Active relationships‘With blacklisting entities on the blacklist, including Huawei and Beijing Genomics Institute, as well as ties with people related to China’s intelligence efforts.
After pressure from American legislators, the CEO of G42 Bloomberg told At the beginning of 2024 that the company shifted its strategy and said: “All our previously done have already been divested. That is why we no longer need a need for a physical presence of China.”
Shortly thereafter, Microsoft – a large shareholder in OpenAI with his own wider interests in the region – announced an investment of $ 1.5 billion in G42, and its president, Brad Smith, joined the G42 board of directors.
