The first phase of a massive new artificial data center in the United Arab Emirates will come online in 2026, likely with 100,000 Nvidia chips.The "Stargate UAE" project is part of a deal brokered last week by U.

In 2026, the UAE will launch the first phase of the Stargate UAE AI data center, equipped with 100,000 Nvidia chips. Despite prior U.S. restrictions, the project is approved under a deal by President Trump.

The GB300 system that OpenAI’s UAE data center will use combines 72 Blackwell Ultra B300 chips with 36 of Nvidia Corp.’s Grace central processing units. Those CPUs collectively have 2,592 cores. The GPUs and CPUs are linked together by an Nvidia technology called NVLink C2C that can shuttle data between chips at a rate of 900 gigabytes per second.