Largest AI Campus Outside the US to Be Built in Abu Dhabi

The United Arab Emirates and the United States have unveiled plans to build the world’s largest artificial intelligence campus in Abu Dhabi, which is hoped to be a major step in accelerating global AI development. The new initiative will see the creation of a 10-square-mile campus powered by a 5-gigawatt data centre and fuelled by up to 500,000 Nvidia AI chips per year, starting in 2025.

The project is part of the newly announced US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership, designed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in advanced technologies. The facility will be developed by Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42, with management and operations handled by US companies to align with American cybersecurity and export control regulations.

The scale of the chip agreement—allowing the import of half a million high-performance Nvidia chips annually—marks a shift in previous US policy. The chips are central to training large AI models and enabling high-performance computing on a global scale.

Strategically located to serve nearly half the world’s population within a 2,000-mile radius, the campus is expected to deliver low-latency AI services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The facility will rely on a combination of nuclear, solar, and natural gas power sources to reduce its carbon footprint while meeting massive energy demands.