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Microsoft announced Monday that it has export licenses to ship Nvidia chips to the United Arab Emirates to help boost its artificial intelligence goals.
Microsoft has received regulatory approval to send NVIDIA AI chips to the UAE, allowing it to increase AI capacity there by fourfold.
In 2023, Microsoft partnered with an Abu Dhabi-based company called Group42 to grow its UAE data center presence. The tech giant disclosed today that it will have invested more than $7.3 billion in the partnership by the end of the year. Over half the sum was allocated to capital expenditures, a line item that includes data center infrastructure.
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Microsoft wins license to ship 60,000 Nvidia GB300/Grace/Blackwell chips to UAE
Microsoft just got permission from the U.S. Commerce Department to ship over 60,000 Nvidia AI chips to the United Arab Emirates.
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IREN Shares Soar on $9.7 Billion AI Cloud Partnership with Microsoft
IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) surged more than 24% in premarket trading Monday after announcing a five-year GPU cloud services deal with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) valued at approximately $9.7 billion, marking one of the largest AI infrastructure partnerships in recent months.