A UAE-US collaboration research report on data center buildout and AI infrastructure is being released concurrently with this podcast, co-authored by Leonard Heim, Georgia Adamson, Greg Allen, and Sam Winter Levy of the Carnegie Institute for Peace.

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and UAE-backed MGX announced Stargate, a joint venture to invest up to $500 billion over four years in US AI infrastructure, with the first $100 billion committed for this year, representing continuation of infrastructure work already underway rather than purely new investment.

Elon Musk is currently suing OpenAI, making the public disagreement over Stargate funding a continuation of ongoing legal and commercial conflict between Musk and OpenAI leadership.

The CSIS team, including Greg Allen, Leonard Hein, Georgia Adamson, and Sam Winter-Levy, has published a research report on UAE-US collaboration on data center buildout based on a research trip to the UAE, which is being released the day of this podcast episode.