India, May 23 -- OpenAI has announced the deployment of Stargate, its AI infrastructure, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This marks the first partnership between OpenAI and a country to build sovereign AI capability. With the world's largest data centre, this partnership will have a one-gigawatt AI computing cluster in Abu Dhabi, expected to go operational in 2026.

OpenAI stated that Stargate UAE "is a new company intending to invest USD 500 billion over the next four years for building a new OpenAI infrastructure in the United States." They also called Stargate UAE as a reflection of the company's long-term vision to build "frontier-scale compute capacity around the world for safe, secure, and broadly beneficial AGI.

This project has been carried o...