One year after President Trump's visit to Abu Dhabi, the UAE continues to invest across the US AI value chain at unprecedented scale and speed. The visit — marking only the second by a sitting US President — set in motion a consequential chapter in the UAE-US economic relationship. Major deals and frameworks, including the U.S.-UAE AI Acceleration Partnership, were announced during the trip, laying the groundwork for deeper bilateral cooperation in advanced technology.
In the past year, the UAE has significantly invested in American AI innovation and the infrastructure that powers it, including:
• Chips: The UAE has received its first batch of advanced Nvidia AI chips, with additional deliveries planned.
• AI Infrastructure: MGX co-founded the AI Infrastructure Partnership with BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft, Nvidia and xAI, mobilizing up to $100 billion for primarily US-based AI infrastructure. The partnership acquired Texas-based Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion in 2025.
• Energy: UAE entities are investing tens of billions of dollars to expand the US energy infrastructure that powers AI. Mubadala Energy recently invested in the $21.5 billion Commonwealth LNG site in Louisiana and XRG has stakes in the NextDecade Rio Grande LNG export facility in Texas.
• LLMs and Frontier AI: UAE sovereign investors are backing leading AI companies including Anthropic, xAI, Databricks, OpenAI and Waymo — advancing the development of next-generation large language models and AI applications.
Additional UAE investments in the US can be found in the UAE Preferred Investment Tracker.
Why This Matters
The UAE is delivering on its commitments made during President Trump's visit. Despite regional disruptions in early 2026, the UAE continues to deploy capital in AI and technology at a scale few nations can match. Since the visit, over $100 billion in expanded trade and investments have been announced, US AI chips have been delivered to the UAE and 200MW of compute at the 5GW UAE-US AI Campus in Abu Dhabi is set to go live this year. The results are tangible: American jobs created in high-growth sectors, economic growth across all 50 states and US AI ambitions advanced.
“Together, we are building what may be the most consequential economic partnership of this decade. We are investing in the US — in AI infrastructure, in energy, in manufacturing — and creating thousands of jobs across America.” – Ambassador Al Otaiba, Source
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