OpenAI teams up with UAE’s G42 to build one of the world’s largest AI data centers in Abu Dhabi, marking its first major project outside the US.

OpenAI said it’s helping to develop a major data center in the United Arab Emirates, a big overseas expansion of its Stargate effort to build out AI infrastructure.

Oracle Corp. is buying $40 billion worth of Nvidia Corp. chips to build a data center for OpenAI, the Financial Times reported today. The deal is believed to involve about 400,000 GB200 Grace Blackwell processors. Each chip combines two of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell B200 graphics cards with a 72-core central processing unit.