Scrutica
Access via partnerships (G42 divested Chinese holdings as condition). Subject to end-use monitoring.
Country-level aggregation: 23 facilities, 346 organizations, 11 supply chain edges. Export control tier: Restricted. 1 sovereign AI program.
What United Arab Emirates can build, what it depends on imports for, and which export control regimes constrain its access to frontier hardware.
Compute Posture
United Arab Emirates has 23 tracked facilities, 11.4 GW aggregate power capacity, 198,776 AI accelerators, under case-by-case licensing for advanced AI chips. 1 sovereign AI program with $500.0B announced. Supply chain footprint: 11 relationships (4 as supplier, 7 as customer).
Structural Note
Export control exposure: 177 BIS Entity List designations targeting entities in United Arab Emirates. Supply chain partners face procurement constraints through association.
| Name | Type | Status | Power (MW) | GPUs | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stargate UAE (OpenAI/G42/Oracle) | ai training | under construction | 5,000 | -- | Oracle Corporation |
G42/Core42 has significant H100 inventory (confirmed). H200 accessible case-by-case. B200/Blackwell restricted. Best confirmed accessible chip (H200, ~1,980 FP16 TFLOPS) vs frontier (B200, 2,250 TFLOPS) = ~0.88. Ratio adjusted to 0.85 reflecting B200 restriction + end-use monitoring friction. (is_estimated: true, authority tier 3)
| Name | Type | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Middle East FZ-LLC | other | -- |
| Qualys Middle East FZE | other | -- |
| UAE Government | government | -- |
| Abu Dhabi UAE/USA 5GW Campus Phase 2 |
| ai training |
| announced |
| 5,000 |
| -- |
| Us Companies |
| Stargate UAE Phase 2 | ai training | announced | 1,000 | -- | Stargate Openai |
| Stargate UAE Phase 1 | ai training | announced | 200 | 100,000 | Stargate Openai |
| G42 Microsoft 100Mw UAE Cluster | ai training | announced | 100 | 55,000 | G42 |
| G42 Microsoft 30Mw UAE Cluster A | ai training | announced | 30 | 15,000 | G42 |
| G42 Microsoft 30Mw UAE Cluster B | ai training | announced | 30 | 15,000 | G42 |
| Core42 SuperPOD | ai training | operational | 2 | 2,544 | G42 |
| G42 Artemis | ai training | operational | 1 | 2,592 | G42 |
| SmartHub Fujairah | colocation | operational | -- | -- | Etisalat |
| OCI UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| OCI UAE East (Dubai) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| AL NASR TYPING CENTER | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | -- |
| AZURE UAE North | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Microsoft Corporation |
| Equinix DX1 - Dubai | colocation | operational | -- | -- | Equinix, Inc. |
| OpenAI Stargate UAE | ai training | under construction | -- | -- | G42 |
| Oracle Abu Dhabi | hyperscale dc | expanding | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| AWS Middle East (UAE) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Amazon.com, Inc. (AWS) |
| Equinix Abu Dhabi AD1 | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Equinix, Inc. |
| AZURE UAE Central | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Microsoft Corporation |
| Alibaba Cloud in UAE | ai training | operational | -- | -- | Alibaba |
| datamena DXA - Dubai | colocation | operational | -- | -- | datamena |
| Core42 AI-03 | ai training | operational | -- | 8,640 | G42 |
Binding layer: GPU Design (NVIDIA (US, EAR)). US entity, directly subject to Export Administration Regulations
Microsoft $1.5B investment in G42
| Wamda Ltd. |
| other |
| -- |
| Wamda Capital | other | -- |
| S&P Global Market Intelligence (DIFC) Ltd. | other | -- |
| TA Connections FZ, LLC (fka: Travelliance Global FZ LLE) | other | -- |
| Dataloop Information Technology Consultancy - Sole Proprietorship L.L.C. | other | -- |
| MENA 360 DWC-LLC | other | -- |
| Hamdan Innovation Incubation | other | -- |
| Majid Al Futtaim Trust | investor | -- |
| Mondial Dubai | investor | -- |
| La Maison Nordique Foodstuff Trading LLC | other | -- |
| Nuance Communications Services Ireland - Dubai Branch | other | -- |
| National Bank of Fujairah | investor | -- |
| Analog (UAE) | other | -- |
| Air Arabia | other | -- |
| Gulf Marine Maintenance & Offshore Service Company | other | -- |
| Dubai Electricity & Water Authority | power provider | -- |
| Memory Technology Middle East FZCO | other | -- |
| Control & Applications Emirates LLC | epc | -- |
| EZY Infotech FZE | other | -- |
| Storit Distribution | other | -- |
| Palo Alto Networks FZ LLC | other | -- |
| Workday MENA FZ-LLC | other | -- |
| Imperva FZ-LLC | other | -- |
| ServiceNow Middle East FZ-LLC | other | -- |
| Advent Software (Middle East) Limited | other | -- |
| Blue Prism FZ-LLC | other | -- |
| SS&C Financial Services Middle East Limited | other | -- |