Inside the UAE-US deal that greenlit advanced AI chip pipeline for G42
If you’ve been following the global AI race, the latest move out of Washington is hard to miss: the White House has officially authorized the export of advanced AI semiconductors to the UAE’s G42.
As leaders like Mark Carney work to deepen economic ties between the US and UAE through new investment protections and trade frameworks, a parallel technology corridor is rapidly taking shape.
The scale of what this unlocks is enormous. This isn’t about enabling a few data centers it clears the path for some of the world’s most powerful AI clusters. Stargate UAE, the 1-gigawatt AI compute facility G42 is building for OpenAI, is now formally greenlit. With Oracle, Cisco, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and others involved, the region is positioning itself as a major force in global AI infrastructure.
