OpenAI and Nvidia will join other companies to build Stargate UAE, an artificial intelligence infrastructure cluster, in a sister project to the recently unveiled push to expand AI infrastructure in the United States.

The GB300 system that OpenAI’s UAE data center will use combines 72 Blackwell Ultra B300 chips with 36 of Nvidia Corp.’s Grace central processing units. Those CPUs collectively have 2,592 cores. The GPUs and CPUs are linked together by an Nvidia technology called NVLink C2C that can shuttle data between chips at a rate of 900 gigabytes per second.

The Stargate UAE project is part of a push by the Gulf petrostate to become a big player in artificial intelligence.