By Andrea Benito
Publication Date: 2025-11-25 07:00:00
Oracle has expanded its Abu Dhabi cloud region with the Middle East’s first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) supercluster powered by Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. This is intended to accelerate sovereign AI across the UAE and support Abu Dhabi’s goal of becoming the world’s first fully AI-native government by 2027.
The deployment represents one of the region’s most significant investments in powerful AI computing. It enables governments and regulated industries to conduct training, inference and research and development workloads in the region while maintaining strict data residency and sovereignty controls.
oracle started the Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region in 2019, shortly followed by a second UAE region in Dubai, becoming the first global hyperscaler to operate two cloud regions in the country. This new expansion builds on Oracle’s multi-year momentum in the Middle East, where the company has steadily expanded its sovereign, government-grade cloud footprint to support healthcare, finance…
