High Tech, Nvidia, Qatar

Nvidia signs deal with Qatari telecom 

The American tech giant closed a deal with the Qatari telecom company Ooredoo despite US desire to limit AI to the region. 

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Reuters reported that the tech giant Nvidia signed an agreement to deploy its artificial intelligence technology in data centers owned by the Qatari telecom group Ooredoo in five countries in the Middle East. This despite US government's restrictions on the export of AI technology to the region.

According to Nvidia's statement, the agreement will make Ooredoo the first in the Middle East to provide direct access to Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence and graphics processing technology, through data centers located in Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, Oman, Kuwait and the Maldives.

The company refused to reveal the type of technology it intends to deploy in its data centers. In an interview with Reuters, Ooredoo CEO Aziz Alotman Fakhru said the company plans to triple the processing capabilities of its data centers and increase its current 40 megawatt capacity by the end of the decade.

According to him, the company has already invested no less than a billion dollars in order to increase the capacity by 20 to 25 megawatts. At the same time, both Nvidia and Ooredoo refused to specify the value of the deal between them or its details.

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