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The new Supercluster will support sovereign AI initiatives across the region and is powered by more than 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, delivering exceptional compute capability for AI training, inference and research and development.

The expanded Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region will help customers in key industries including smart government, energy, financial services, healthcare, logistics, aviation and telecoms accelerate AI adoption while meeting data sovereignty and regulatory requirements. OCI’ s sovereign AI infrastructure will also directly support Abu Dhabi’ s ambition to become the world’ s first fully AI-native government by 2027 and strengthen the UAE’ s position as a regional hub for AI innovation.

“ This deployment marks a decisive moment for Abu Dhabi and the entire Middle East region,” said Nick Redshaw, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure, Middle East and Africa, Oracle.

“ By bringing the region’ s first OCI Supercluster to Abu Dhabi, we are giving governments and enterprises across the Middle East direct access to some of the world’ s most advanced AI compute capabilities, right here in-region. OCI is the platform of choice for AI training and inferencing and the combination of its performance, security and deployment flexibility with NVIDIA AI infrastructure enabling us to deliver AI capabilities at scale and accelerate AI adoption across the Middle East.”

“ This partnership delivers unprecedented compute and performance at scale, supporting Abu Dhabi’ s vision of an AI-native government by 2027,” said Marc Domenech, Senior Regional Director of Enterprise META, NVIDIA.“ By integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing with OCI’ s secure, distributed cloud, we are ensuring nations have the specialised‘ AI Factory’ required to innovate locally while maintaining data control.”

Purpose-built for demanding workloads, NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver up to 30x faster real-time large language model inference, 25x lower total cost of ownership and require 25x less energy than the previous generation.

Oracle’ s distributed cloud offerings deliver the full benefit of OCI to governments, regulated industries and enterprises that require control over data residency, latency and AI sovereignty. They provide the same portfolio of more than 200 AI and cloud services, APIs, SLAs and pricing as in Oracle’ s public cloud. With live and planned operations in more than 200 regions, Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering its full suite of AI and cloud services at the edge, in a customer’ s data centre, across clouds or in the public cloud. p

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