US, UAE Unveil Plan For New 5GW AI Campus In Abu Dhabi (patentlyapple.com) 30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Patently Apple: It's being reported in the Gulf region that a new 5GW UAE-US AI Campus in Abu Dhabi was unveiled on Thursday at Qasr Al Watan in the presence of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and US. President Donald Trump, who is on a state visit to the UAE. The new AI campus -- the largest of its kind outside the United States -- will host US hyperscalers and large enterprises, enabling them to leverage regional compute resources with the capability to serve the Global South. The UAE-US AI Campus will feature 5GW of capacity for AI data centers in Abu Dhabi, offering a regional platform through which US hyperscalers can provide low-latency services to nearly half of the global population.
Upon completion, the facility will utilize nuclear, solar, and gas power to minimize carbon emissions. It will also house a science park focused on advancing innovation in artificial intelligence. The campus will be built by G42 and operated in partnership with several US companies including NVIDIA, OpenAI, SoftBank, Cisco and others. The initiative is part of the newly established US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership, a bilateral framework designed to deepen collaboration on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. The UAE and US will jointly regulate access to the compute resources, which are reserved for US hyperscalers and approved cloud service providers. An official press release from the White House can be found here.
Upon completion, the facility will utilize nuclear, solar, and gas power to minimize carbon emissions. It will also house a science park focused on advancing innovation in artificial intelligence. The campus will be built by G42 and operated in partnership with several US companies including NVIDIA, OpenAI, SoftBank, Cisco and others. The initiative is part of the newly established US-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership, a bilateral framework designed to deepen collaboration on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. The UAE and US will jointly regulate access to the compute resources, which are reserved for US hyperscalers and approved cloud service providers. An official press release from the White House can be found here.
power (Score:2)
"Upon completion, the facility will utilize nuclear, solar, and gas power to minimize carbon emissions."
The UAE has nukes?
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Anyway, just for a perspective on magnitude, 5 GW would be able to charge about 5000 EV cars in 5 minutes.
They promise charging time of eventually 5 minutes for your EV forgetting that you will need a dedicated 1 MW power station for every single vehicle being charged to charge a single EV in 5 minutes.
Here if you want to check the math:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcarsbibles.com%2Fhow-man... [carsbibles.com]
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The Persian Gulf is one of the hottest, low-rainfall locations on the planet. If anyone has a vested interest in the planet not becoming 2 degrees warmer, it's the Arabs.
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Because if you have all the money it becomes someone else's problem.
They are turning that oil into cash reserves for investments. If the climate is wrecked with or without them, they are cashing out and setting themselves up for their own air-conditioned future.
Re: power (Score:1)
Cash reserve performance is unpredictable when economies crash. They need to get on spending it.
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I think you underestimate how little of it is currently cash. The percentage of revenue coming from oil vs investments is steadily dropping.
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You spend it on air conditioning, powered by more oil...
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They are ignoring climate change and denying that their oil will ever be "stranded assets".
It's just drill baby drill and everyone else be dammed.
(They do have a trivial amount of solar which they use as green-washing.)
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Nah. Oil is what they sell to fund their petro-state dictatorship. They'll sell the oil, and use the shitloads of money to build this, so they can make even more money.
These people know the oil won't last forever, so they're looking to diversify. Would be nice if our own government had that much foresight. Drill, baby! Drill!
Re:power (Score:5, Informative)
Yep. Four operatable reactors:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworld-nuclear.org%2Finfo... [world-nuclear.org]
No bombs, of course. Bombs require fissionable material enriched to a much greater concentration of U-235. Iran, for example, has had nuclear power for 14 years, but what everybody's worried about is their enrichment program.
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Do people still use U-235 bombs? Although more technically challenging, the science behind Plutonium implosion devices is out there and accesible to most countries.
Of course, you need a reactor. But then lower enriched Uranium will do nicely.
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I know for a fact that the A-Bomb watch on Iran is monitoring their U-235 enrichment activities. I think that the thing here is that plutonium is hard to get, though I will admit I'm not entirely sure. I don't think it's possible to get significant amounts of plutonium out of a non-breeder reactor, and that is the primary reason breeder reactors are shunned.
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Plutonium requires reactors for neutron bombardment while u-235 requires enrichment from natural sources. Reactors make targets for israeli aggression.
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The reactors being built in places like this are monitored to make sure they aren't breeding weapons-grade plutonium. There are very different fuel load patterns that happen if the goal is plutonium production, because you need to minimize the amount of time your target Pu-239 is exposed to neutron flux, so it doesn't become Pu-240 or Pu-241. It's pretty damn obvious if you're only running fresh fuel assemblies for 6 months or less and then shutting down to refuel.
In addition, they don't have any faciliti
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It's pretty damn obvious if you're only running fresh fuel assemblies for 6 months or less and then shutting down to refuel.
Shutting down? There are CANDU and RBMK (Whoops!) continuous fueling designs. And IIRC, Hanford (Manhattan Project) had a continuous reactor. Not sure if that was one of their engineering dead ends.
In addition, they don't have any facilities for reprocessing the reactor fuel elements to separate the not-plutonium from plutonium, which is very necessary for obtaining the purity required for an implosion nuclear weapon.
Principally done chemically. The footprint of which is smaller than centrifuge plants for Uranium.
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Barakah nuclear plant.
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They have money. Shitloads of it.
The only thing standing between a country having nuclear power or not is a shitload of money, and the will to spend it on building a nuclear power plant.
Making the best of it. (Score:2)
Good (Score:2)
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But but but... (Score:2)
everything is supposed to happen in America! Is Trump selling out?
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Is Trump selling out?
BWAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahhahah haaha ha heh
When has that guy NOT sold out to petrodictators? He's been bending over for these guys at least since his first foreign trip in 2016.
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Sure wish we had one of those doom day machines... (Score:2)
Maybe someone could bribe the president.
Must be a pain to keep cool. (Score:1)
I believe (Score:2)
The correct title is President Ultimate Dick Sucker and Fragile Ego Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.