"Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, the company announced Monday at the first annual Abu Dhabi Global AI Summit. The investment will include the first-ever shipments of the most advanced Nvidia GPUs to the UAE. As part of the deal, the U.S. has granted Microsoft a license to export Nvidia chips to the UAE, a move that positions the country as both a proving ground for U.S. export-control diplomacy"
"The deal allows Microsoft to expand its foothold into the Middle East, a key region in the global fight for AI dominance. In May, President Donald Trump struck a deal with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan to build an AI data center campus in Abu Dhabi. The project was delayed due to U.S. export controls, which restricted the sale of powerful Nvidia chips needed to run advanced AI systems."
Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years and will ship advanced Nvidia GPUs to the UAE under a U.S. export license. The U.S. license enables Microsoft to position the UAE as a proving ground for export-control diplomacy and a regional AI hub. A May agreement to build an AI data center campus in Abu Dhabi had been delayed by export controls restricting powerful Nvidia chips. Microsoft was the first company to receive a Commerce Department license, and it says it met cybersecurity and national security conditions to deploy GPUs.
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