US President Donald Trump signs a golden book next to the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025.
Brian Snyder | Reuters
Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates – The American and United Arab Emirates are working on a track to allow Abu Dhabi to buy some of the most advanced American manufacturers for its AI development, said US President Donald Trump on the Emiratic capital on Friday.
“Yesterday, the two countries also agreed to create a path for the United Arab Emirates to buy some of the most advanced AI semiconductors from the word from American companies, it is a very big contract,” Trump said while attending breakfast at the United States Council for the United States on the last day of his four-day visit to the Middle East.
The “very big contract” in question could be in reference to a Preliminary agreement reported With the water that would allow him to import 500,000 of the NVIDIA H100 H100 chips – the most advanced chips that the American company produces. This would accelerate the capacity of the Sheikhdom desert to build data centers necessary to supply its AI models.
Water has invested massively in IA infrastructure in recent years in order to become a world center for technology. American semiconductors are at the heart of this objective, which have not yet reached National security concerns.
This could become one thing in the past, because the Trump administration plans to cancel a “AI dissemination rule” of Biden, which has imposed strict export controls on advanced AI fleas, even to nations adapted to the United States.
However, security veterans and legislators’ professionals – with some members of the Trump administration – expressed their concerns that the suppression of these limits can open the door to sensitive American technology to find themselves in the hands of rivals like China.
Trump’s comments one day came after the White House announced a partnership with the United Arab Emirates to build a huge artificial intelligence campus in Abu Dhabi, presented as the largest installation of this type outside the United States
The data center will be built by the Emirati G42 technology company, which will associate several American companies on the installation, according to a press release from the Ministry of Commerce. It will have a capacity of 5 gigawatt and will cover 10 square miles.
The names of American companies involved have not been disclosed. A phalanx of the CEO of Top America Tech accompanied Trump during his trip to the Middle East, notably Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sam Altman of Openai, the son Masayoshi of Softbank and the president of Cisco, Jeetu Patel.
