Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event, “Investing in America”, held by President Donald Trump in Washington, April 30, 2025.
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American technical giants Nvidia” Cisco” Oracle And OpenAI supports the “VAE Stargate” artificial intelligence data center that was announced this week, several people who are familiar with the deal on Friday.
AI chip leader NVIDIA supplies hardware from the latest Blackwell GB300 systems, one person who asked not to be mentioned to speak freely.
The data center will collaborate with the AI infrastructure project with the same name in the US announced by President Donald Trump, shortly after his inauguration in January, according to that person.
Oracle is also involved in the VAE Stargate, another person who is not mentioned to speak freely. Co-founder Larry Ellison was part of the American Stargate announcement.
Vae Stargate will be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, by the Emirati company G42, according to the US Commerce Department, which the data center announces. The massive campus will have 5-gigawatt capacity and cover 10 square miles.
Trump was in the VAE as part of his first travel trip abroad in his second term. He also visited Saudi Arabia.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAi CEO Sam Altman, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Cisco President Jeetu Patel were also in the VAE.
Cisco, Nvidia and OpenAi all refused to comment on this story.
The first phase of the VAE Stargate includes according to the Trump administration at 1-Gigawatt Compute Cluster.
In February, OpenAi announced that it considered building US Stargate Data Center campuses in 16 states that had indicated “real interest” in the project.
The 16 states are Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
The construction of the data center in Abilene, Texas, is underway and is expected to be completed by mid -2026.
On Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, Huang announced that Nvidia would sell 18,000 Blackwell -chips to Saudi company Humain.
The GB300 chips, which were announced earlier this year, will be used in data centers of a total of 500 megawatts in Saudi Arabia, according to comments on the Saudi-us Investment Forum in Riyadh.
AMD said it would also deliver chips to Humain. The company said Humain that you have committed $ 10 billion on the project.
– Hayden Field of CNBC has contributed to this story.
