December 9, 2025
When U.S. President Donald Trump visited the Arab Gulf in May, his focus was not on Gaza, Iran, or even normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Instead, it was on business deals and, above all, artificial intelligence. During the trip, Trump agreed to sell advanced U.S. chips to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and to invest in AI mega-campuses in the Gulf that will host U.S. firms. One such site, in Abu Dhabi, could become the worldʼs largest concentrated cluster of the computing power fueling artificial intelligence.
