During the visit of Donald Trump to Abu Dhabi, cooperation was announced in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Agreements, whose value was estimated at over $ 200 billion, includes, among others, the construction of the largest outside the US, the campus of artificial intelligence, whose target power will be 5 GW.
“The agreement obliges ZEA to invest in the construction and financing of American data centers at at least such as investments in this sector in the Emirates themselves,” said the White House. It has been added that the agreement is also to protect the redirection of technologies from USA.
Donald Trump with the President of the United Arab EmiratesPAP/EPA/UAE Presidential Court/Handout
USA and ZEA have signed a cooperation agreement in the field of AI
During the presidency Joe Biden The US has introduced restrictions on the export of the most advanced AI technologies to many countries, including Zeain fear of American chips can ultimately go to China. Trump's administration endured these restrictions, arguing that they suppressed innovation and hindered contacts with allies.
The USA is one of the most important Zea allies, but China is the greatest trading partner of this country. Arabic country rich in raw materials wants to become a leading economy in the field of AI.
Trump and President Zea Mohammed bin inaugurated the project of the AI campus on Friday, which in the first phase is to have the power of 1 GW, and ultimately 5 GW.
“This largest AI center outside the USA will serve American enterprises and cloud service providers, which will be able to serve clients without delay within a radius of 3200 km from the UAE, the area where half of the inhabitants of the Earth lives” – the American Ministry of Trade was written in a statement.
Donald Trump in the United Arab EmiratesPAP/EPA/UAE Presidential Court/Handout
The USA has concluded contracts with ZAA
The campus will be built by the G42 Emiracki group in cooperation with American companies. The energy needed to conduct it is to come from nuclear, sun and gas power plants. Currently, the vast majority of computing centers used in the AI sector are located in the USA and China.
From 2025, ZAA will be able to import 500 thousand. NVIDIA's most modern chips AI – said Reuters behind the sources. Nvidia and the governments of both countries have not confirmed these reports. On Thursday, however, the Zea leader talked with the accompanying Trumpy president Nvidia Jensen Huang.
The White House announced that the American president announced during the visit contracts with a total value of $ 200 billion, including a contract for $ 14.5 billion between Boeing, GE Aerospace and Emiraci Etihad air lines. ZAA presented a 10-year investment program in March in March American economy worth $ 1.4 trillion.
Trump's visit to the United Arab Emirates is the next stage of his journey around the rich states of the Persian Gulf, after he praised the plans of Doha, which intends to invest $ 10 billion in an American military base during his trip to Runny nose.
US President Donald Trump visits Doha (Qatar)Qatar News Agency Handout/ PAP/ EPA.
During the four -day stay of Trump in the Persian Gulf region, other large business agreements were signed, including a contract for Qatar Airways for the purchase of up to 210 wide -body Boeing jets, the commitment of Saudi Arabia to invest $ 600 billion in the USA and 142 billion dollars for the sale of American weapons to the Kingdom.
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