The Gulf’s trillion-dollar race to become an artificial-intelligence superpower faces the region’s biggest challenge: water. Data centers powering AI across the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are consuming water...
The world’s biggest oil company is betting on a Google spinoff to profit from pollution. Saudi Aramco, which pumps more crude than any rival, has partnered with SandboxAQ, a $5.6...
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar pledged $2 trillion of deals during U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East tour last month, sparking debate over whether massive spending can buy tech...
President Donald Trump shakes hands with President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates after they announced that the two nations would work together to establish the largest artificial intelligence data center outside of the United States in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, May 15, 2025. At every step of President Trump's whirlwind tour, he has been treated with the kind of honor and respect he has long desired. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East. Unlike Western markets, where Google, Apple, and Meta maintain separate app ecosystems with strict integration limits, in countries like the...
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