U.S.-China AI Competition Needs Data Centers in UAE, Saudi Arabia

“Why do we put data centers and research centers in Dubai?” US Reply. Ro khanna in a video posted in X in May. “We must have new new wage technology functions in the United States. What happened to” America first “?” David Sachs released US President Donald Trump to artificial intelligence: “The deal has a matching investment ruling, so the UAE will finance the building of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States at least at least in the United Arab Emirates, and in the United Arab Emirates.

They had no just a rhetorical version. It focused on the outcome of Trump May’s trip to the Gulf: a partnership of the United States of America, which is based on the Amnesty International Data Center in Abu Dhabi. Stargate UAE, an infrastructure platform and the opening project in the Openai for Country initiative, will be part of the data center, which will be one of the largest positions in the world. The partnership has been developed in close coordination with the United States government and was personally defending by Trump, and the partnership requires a double investment: Group 1-ggawatt (GW) in Abu Dhabi (with the first 200 megawatts is expected to live in 2026) and the UAE commitment to expand the scope of American transformation. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia adopts a similar approach through Humain, the pioneering AI project for the Public Investment Fund. With the support of deals with, among other things, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, Humain is also designed as a Saudi platform with regional and global ambitions, targeting of typical training, inference, and artificial intelligence services across emerging markets – all are firmly included in the accommodation of American technology. Together, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the wider Gulf region put themselves as a potential background of Amnesty International Emerging Markets throughout Asia and Africa, setting the basis for a model of the United States for artificial intelligence partnerships that can, over time, China in the global artificial intelligence race.

“Why do we put data centers and research centers in Dubai?” US Reply. Ro khanna in a video posted in X in May. “We must have new new wage technology functions in the United States. What happened to” America first “?” David Sachs released US President Donald Trump to artificial intelligence: “The deal has a matching investment ruling, so the UAE will finance the building of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States at least at least in the United Arab Emirates, and in the United Arab Emirates.

They had no just a rhetorical version. It focused on the outcome of Trump May’s trip to the Gulf: a partnership of the United States of America, which is based on the Amnesty International Data Center in Abu Dhabi. Stargate UAE, an infrastructure platform and the opening project in the Openai for Country initiative, will be part of the data center, which will be one of the largest positions in the world. The partnership has been developed in close coordination with the United States government and was personally defending by Trump, and the partnership requires a double investment: Group 1-ggawatt (GW) in Abu Dhabi (with the first 200 megawatts is expected to live in 2026) and the UAE commitment to expand the scope of American transformation. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia adopts a similar approach through Humain, the pioneering AI project for the Public Investment Fund. With the support of deals with, among other things, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, Humain is also designed as a Saudi platform with regional and global ambitions, targeting of typical training, inference, and artificial intelligence services across emerging markets – all are firmly included in the accommodation of American technology. Together, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the wider Gulf region put themselves as a potential background of Amnesty International Emerging Markets throughout Asia and Africa, setting the basis for a model of the United States for artificial intelligence partnerships that can, over time, China in the global artificial intelligence race.

As shown in the exchange of Khanna and SACKS, though, the deal – which was canceled the AI ​​Biden -Ily prevalence base – sparked a sharp debate, even before its official start. The risks include the issue of high power that has the infrastructure of the most important technology of our time.

Critics in what It may be called the “male deployment camp”, including Khanna, that Washington is actually the power of the United States’s strategic computing to the Middle East. They argue that the account-the ability to process data, and the operation of everything from basic accounts to advanced artificial intelligence systems-is equivalent to the twenty-first century of enriched uranium, a critical lever from the national power that should be distributed with caution, if any. The United States dominates approximately 75 percent of the world’s border account account, largely supported by NVIDIA graphics and arm -based designs. Many people in Washington believe that China, bound by export controls, cannot be assembled soon, not to mention publishing, largely stacked by Amnesty International. Those who are in the “non -spread” camp argues that winning the race to artificial general intelligence requires maintaining this feature. They support a gradient global system, as advanced chips are granted only to trusted allies, while the rest of the world-including the Gulf-rich Gulf states-left abroad.

SACKS and SRIRAM KRISHNAN, the chief White House consultant in artificial intelligence, can be called the “Global AI AI AI AI” camp. They argue that ConkePoint in the infrastructure of artificial intelligence is no longer chips, but electricity. By demanding the American Data Center, up to 9 percent of the National Network by 2030, they notice that the United States cannot build high -voltage lines or sub -stations quickly enough to keep pace with this. On the contrary, GULF Partners can finance the GW campus to $ 0.03 per kilowatt hour and bring them online for months. From SACKS’s point of view, eavesdropping on this excess force is the only reliable way to expand the account at a speed enough to maintain the United States in front of the global artificial intelligence race.

This camp also claims that the technological gap between the United States and China is much narrower than what defenders suggest the spread of artificial intelligence. Huawei, associated with Deepseek Model, Beijing with a comprehensive local pile, is already working on experimental projects abroad. Huawei is close to parity with US chips and pushing the broader China to depend on technological Do not be returned. Travel is clear, and the transformation already carries global effects. This would raise a serious rethinking state in the current contest of US -Chinese technology. Because this competition does not occur in a vacuum, other countries are already facing a choice between two chimneys: American stack or Chinese stack. In fact, this choice is now revealed.

Malaysia, which fluctuates on the Huawei -backed Amnesty International Cloud, is an example. As Sacks said, “As I was warning, the full Chinese stack here. We have canceled Biden’s spread base in time. American artificial intelligence staple must be launched to compete.” Once the devices and Deepseek models spread across emerging markets, SACKS believes it can erode the edge of the current US account and speed up the momentum of China in the race for artificial intelligence dominance. Even if Malaysia in the end choose to spread the Chinese stack, the stack is already here and will be elected. Depending on the expansion of the digital footprint in China, an increasing number of countries can adopt the Amnesty International Phara, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, South Africa, Algeria and Egypt. The Chinese stack has no shortage of potential customers. It is only a matter of time.

For this reason, the partnerships of the United States of America and Al-Awoudi should not be seen as an account abroad-this capacity that did not exist in the first place. The current infrastructure of the United States has already been tense by the sharp bottlenecks of energy and capital, making the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia a necessary partners to expand the ability of the United States account. According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), energy demand in the data center in the United States is expected to increase sharply, from about 4.4 % of the total electricity consumption in the United States in 2023 to between 6.7 % and 12 % by 2028, as well as increasing society resistance. In this context, the partnership of the United States of America and the United States ‘deals-and the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to finance the building of the United States’ infrastructure-is the most realistic path of Washington to expand the capabilities restricted in partnership with the able countries.

If the issue of the ability to calculate energy is ultimately one of the energy-and if the US-UAE partnership helps to solve this restriction-some critics are still arguing that this cooperation should be limited to countries that share the democratic values ​​of the United States. This argument depends on the assumption that the account is very sensitive to sharing. In fact, however, the account is not one of the classified assets; It is a commodity. Like oil in the twentieth century, the value does not lie in secrecy but in capacity, size and reliable access. You do not need to detect the IPHONE source code to sell it; The value lies in huge production, performance and distribution. An account that works in the same way. What matters is the one who can build and expand the infrastructure, and not those who hide it behind the wall of protection.

Through its partnership With the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf can put itself as a rear account service provider for countries, especially through emerging markets, which lack the ability to train and operate artificial intelligence systems but are keen to benefit from them to achieve national goals. In many ways, this is the essence of sovereign artificial intelligence.

If the United States is moving away from ready-made partners such as the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-where clear preferences of the United States have shown by working with American companies and investing in the American organization’s infrastructure A-A-of doubts or through the narrow lens of democracy-for the rocky framework, Washington creates a quarterly manufacturing that will be fast China. Unlike the traditional areas of geopolitical competition, as Beijing has not yet been proven that it could replace the United States as a global security presenter, technology is a different story. In this regard, China outperformed Western companies, as it built a global network that provides its staple without connected threads. Chinese devices have won 5G, renewable technologies, electric cars, and other huge production technologies in the global race. The choice, then, is not between confidence in tyranny or preserving democratic values; It is between the global deployment of Amnesty International Infrastructure or the arrested inactivity as the virtual Chinese stack becomes.