The United Arab Emirates recently announced that the ultra-large-scale artificial intelligence park jointly planned and constructed with the United States will be partially put into operation. The first batch of 200 megawatts of computing power will be online first. The overall planned total computing power scale is as high as 5 gigawatts, which will be supported by thousands of new-generation high-performance AI chips.
According to the cooperation framework previously signed by the two parties, the UAE plans to invest approximately US$1.4 trillion in the United States, covering 30 key projects, including AI infrastructure, energy and manufacturing, and is expected to create thousands of jobs across the United States. The UAE stated that a considerable part of the funds will be used to accelerate cooperation in the fields of advanced technology and artificial intelligence, and this 5GW AI park is one of the core projects of this strategic layout.
The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the United States revealed that this project known as the "US-UAE 5GW AI Park" has entered the substantial construction stage, and the first phase of 200 MW computing power modules is about to go online. The project was laid by U.S. President Donald J. Trump during his visit to Abu Dhabi last year, marking a new stage of cooperation between the two countries in the field of AI. In November 2025, the United States approved the export of thousands of new-generation high-performance chips to the project to support this large-scale AI infrastructure.
Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, said at an event in Washington that the first batch of "advanced chips" approved by the United States has arrived in the UAE, and subsequent batches are also on the way. He emphasized that the first 200-megawatt computing power section of the 5GW AI park "will be launched soon", which will become an important milestone in the AI acceleration partnership between the two countries. Otaiba pointed out that the significance of this infrastructure is not limited to its own scale. Its radiation effect on regional and even global AI computing power supply and industrial ecology is also worthy of attention.
Although the official chip model has not yet been disclosed, the industry generally speculates that these "next-generation" AI chips are likely to come from NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture GPU product line. This series of chips is specially designed for high-intensity AI workloads such as large model training and inference, and is regarded as the core hardware of the new generation of AI computing power. If this judgment is true, the park will become one of the largest AI facilities in the world deploying the Blackwell platform.
For the UAE, this AI park is just one link in its long-term AI strategy. As early as 2017, the UAE appointed the world's first "Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence" to promote the development of artificial intelligence with a national-level structure. Since then, the UAE has established the Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, which is regarded as one of the world's leading AI research universities and continues to provide talents and research results to the regional and global AI industries.
At the level of international cooperation, the UAE is also a member of the "Pax-Silica" initiative spearheaded by the United States in December last year. The initiative aims to build a "trustworthy" supply chain for artificial intelligence and key materials, and to strengthen collaboration and security among all parties on cutting-edge technologies as the semiconductor and computing industries enter a new chapter in the "Silicon Era." The US-UAE 5GW AI Park and the chip export and infrastructure collaboration behind it are seen as the concrete implementation of this initiative at the computing infrastructure level.
With the first batch of 200 MW computing power units about to go online, and the continued delivery of thousands of new generation AI chips, this AI park with a planned total computing power of 5GW will become an important node on the global AI infrastructure map in the next few years. For the UAE, which is accelerating the deployment of large models, generative AI and industry-level intelligent applications, this is not only a leap in the scale of computing power, but also an important starting point for it to strive for voice and technological dominance in the global AI competition landscape.