OpenAI said it’s helping to develop a major data center in the United Arab Emirates, a big overseas expansion of its Stargate effort to build out AI infrastructure.

OpenAI will partner with United Arab Emirates to build Stargate UAE, a massive new Middle East data center that's part of the company's OpenAI for Countries push, the deal's participants announced Thursday.

UAE launches AI data center project with backing from Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Cisco – linking new campus to the Stargate initiative in the US.