President Donald Trump and his United Arab Emirates counterpart have revealed plans to build the largest group of artificial intelligence data centres outside the US, boosting the UAE’s ambitions of becoming a global AI hub.
The announcement came during a Trump visit to Abu Dhabi to meet its president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and other UAE officials. It was the American president’s third stop of a Gulf tour this week that he says has raised trillions of dollars in investment for the US.
AI has been a theme of President Trump’s trip in the Gulf, whose monarchies hope the cutting-edge technology will help diversify their oil-reliant economies, and whose huge sovereign wealth funds are keen to back AI initiatives.