Oracle deploys its first Middle East supercluster in Abu Dhabi

4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to support UAE Sovereign AI initiatives

#UAE #ArtificialIntelligence - US cloud computing company Oracle has announced major expansion of its Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region with deployment of the first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in the Middle East. Supporting sovereign AI initiatives in the region, the supercluster will be powered by more than 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs delivering compute capabilities for AI training, inference and research and development. The expanded infrastructure will help customers in regulated industries including smart government, energy, financial services, healthcare, logistics, aviation and telecommunications accelerate AI adoption. The new supercluster will also suppor Abu Dhabi’s goals of becoming the world’s first fully AI-native government by 2027.

SO WHAT? - The Oracle deployment caters to the increasing appetite for high performance AI compute clusters. The new supercluster provides governments and enterprises across the Middle East with access to advanced AI compute capabilities within the region, as an alternative to AI infrastructure located in Europe or North America. As more and more governments and large enterprises demand more powerful compute, so does the need to address data sovereignty concerns that constrain AI adoption in regulated sectors.

Here are some key points about the new Abu Dhabi supercluster:

• Oracle has announced a major expansion of the Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region with deployment of the first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster powered by more than 4,000 US semiconductor company NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, representing the first such deployment in the Middle East region.

• The OCI Supercluster will support sovereign AI initiatives across the Middle East, delivering exceptional compute capabilities for AI training, inference and research and development.

• The expanded infrastructure will help customers in key regional industries including smart government, energy, financial services, healthcare, logistics, aviation and telecommunications accelerate AI adoption.

• Significantly increasing Oracle’s capacity to delivery sovereign AI services in the region, the supercluster directly supports Abu Dhabi’s goals of becoming the world’s first fully AI-native government by 2027.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows customers to run demanding AI workloads including frontier model training and inference, agentic AI, scientific computing and recommender systems anywhere in Oracle’s distributed cloud. OCI Supercluster technology is capable of scaling to 131,072 graphics processing units for zettascale performance.

• NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver up to 30 times faster real-time large language model inference, 25 times lower total cost of ownership and require 25 times less energy than the previous generation of graphics processing units, enabling more efficient AI workloads.

• Oracle’s distributed cloud offerings deliver the full portfolio of over 200 AI and cloud services, application programming interfaces, service level agreements and pricing as in Oracle’s public cloud, with live and planned operations in more than 200 regions globally.

• Oracle positions itself as the only hyperscaler capable of delivering its entire suite of AI and cloud services at the edge, in customer data centres, across clouds or in the public cloud, providing governments and regulated industries with control over data residency, latency and AI sovereignty.

ZOOM OUT - Oracle operates multiple public cloud regions across the Middle East, with locations in the UAE (Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), with plans for a third Saudi region in Riyadh and cloud infrastructure in NEOM. In January, the company announced that it was increasing investment in the Abu Dhabi cloud region by five times, reflecting growing demand for regional computing capacity. Meanwhile, during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Gulf in May 2025, Oracle has announced an investment of $14 billion into the Kingdom’s digital cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, spread over a 10-year period. In addition, Oracle is a key partner in the Stargate UAE project, alongside G42, OpenAI, Nvidia, Cisco, and SoftBank. The first 200MW of compute capacity in next-generation AI infrastructure cluster will come online in 2026.

[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]