UAE ditches oil for AI to build Global South hi-tech ‘bridge’

– and the Middle Eastern cultural crossroad’s ambitions to become an AI bridge to the Global South just got another major leg up with the delivery of the latest, cutting-edge US-designed chips.

faster than the United Arab Emirates

No country on Earth has adopted artificial intelligence

But those ambitions are taking shape in a hostile environment. Amid the US-Israel war on Iran

, Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has repeatedly taken aim at major Emirati data centres, developed in partnership with American technology giants, forcing government planners to pivot and adapt.