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The gulf is not the place to build the world's AI infrastructure
Christopher S. Chivvis is director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sam Winter-Levy is a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In May, the Trump administration green-lit one of the most consequential technology investments of the decade: the construction of massive artificial intelligence data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. These facilities, funded by gulf sovereign wealth and built with U.S. technology, are projected to host some of the largest and most powerful computing clusters in the world — critical infrastructure for training and deploying advanced AI models.
