OpenAI will partner with United Arab Emirates to build Stargate UAE, a massive new Middle East data center that's part of the company's OpenAI for Countries push, the deal's participants announced Thursday.

OpenAI said it’s helping to develop a major data center in the United Arab Emirates, a big overseas expansion of its Stargate effort to build out AI infrastructure.

All things being equal, you probably would not build a 5 gigawatt datacenter on Earth in the desert near the equator. But that is where a lot of salt