OpenAI to help UAE develop one of world’s biggest data centers

OpenAI plans to help develop a massive new data center in the United Arab Emirates that may eventually be one of the largest in the world, a major bet on the Middle East and a significant expansion of the company’s global AI infrastructure ambitions.

The ChatGPT maker is expected to be one of the primary anchor tenants for a recently announced 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the plans are not public. OpenAI’s participation is not yet finalized, said the…