OpenAI teams up with UAE’s G42 to build one of the world’s largest AI data centers in Abu Dhabi, marking its first major project outside the US.

As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities 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.