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Local opposition is growing over power costs, water, and land use, turning AI expansion into a political hot potato 

Investment could reach $50tn by 2050, but electricity, semiconductors and data laws will determine where the factories of the new economy are built

Riyadh revealed the scale of its push to become a global technology hub at the annual summit that wrapped up on 3 September

It is not just a fancy name for the air-conditioning industry, but an intricate system that begins with power stations and extends to the design of buildings and cities

Traditional large electricity customers' requirements have tended to match utilities' capacities, but the enormous data centres on which the AI era is being built are redefining demand

Elon Musk once mocked Anthropic. Now the AI company is paying billions for access to his computing infrastructure.

Her appointment as president of Meta signals a strategic turn away from product-centric leadership towards the management of power, capital, and geopolitics

Riyadh wants the powerful NVIDIA processors to help it develop an Arabic large language model. With the US reassured over technology transfer risks, an export licence is forthcoming.

A new company is playing a big role in advancing and coordinating national initiatives related to data centres, cloud infrastructure, and the acceleration of AI adoption across key sectors

America offers the technology and the know-how, while the Gulf brings the capital and the energy, but are the Gulf states putting all their AI eggs in the US basket?