Oracle recently announced a major expansion of the Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region with the deployment of the first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in the Middle East.
The new OCI Supercluster, which will support sovereign AI initiatives in the Middle East, will be powered by more than 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and deliver exceptional compute capabilities for AI training, inference, and research and development.
The expanded Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region will help customers in key regional industries, including smart government, energy, financial services, healthcare, logistics, aviation, and telecoms, accelerate AI adoption while meeting data sovereignty and regulatory requirements. In addition, OCI’s sovereign AI infrastructure will directly support Abu Dhabi’s goals of becoming the world’s first fully AI-native government by 2027 and help establish the UAE as a regional hub for AI innovation.
“This deployment marks a decisive moment for Abu Dhabi and the entire Middle East region”, said Nick Redshaw, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure, Middle East and Africa, Oracle. “By bringing the region’s first OCI Supercluster to Abu Dhabi, we are giving governments and enterprises across the Middle East direct access to some of the world’s most advanced AI compute capabilities, right here in-region. OCI is the platform of choice for AI training and inferencing, and the combination of its performance, security, and deployment flexibility with NVIDIA AI infrastructure enabling us to deliver AI capabilities at scale and accelerate AI adoption across the Middle East”.
“This partnership delivers unprecedented compute and performance at scale, supporting Abu Dhabi’s vision of an AI-native government by 2027”, said Marc Domenech, senior regional director of Enterprise META, NVIDIA. “By integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing with OCI’s secure, distributed cloud, we are ensuring nations have the specialised ‘AI Factory’ required to innovate locally while maintaining data control”.
Purpose-built for the most demanding workloads, NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver up to 30x faster real-time large language model inference, 25x lower total cost of ownership, and require 25x less energy than the previous generation of GPUs.
Delivering More Choice and Control with Sovereign and Distributed Cloud Services
Oracle’s distributed cloud offerings deliver the full benefit of OCI to governments, regulated industries, and enterprises that require control over data residency, latency, and AI sovereignty. They provide the same portfolio of over 200 AI and cloud services, APIs, SLAs, and pricing as in Oracle’s public cloud. With live and planned operations in more than 200 regions, Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering its entire suite of AI and cloud services at the edge, in a customer’s data centre, across clouds, or in the public cloud.
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