US Unveils AI Compute Whitelist for UAE
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-07-11
The post elaborates on the first batch of entities included in the US "approved entity" channel, featuring Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI. The focus of this mechanism isn't to give all UAE data centers unrestricted access to NVIDIA/AMD accelerators, but to establish a priority lane for US-aligned AI ecosystems.
Additionally, UAE government agencies, G42, Core42, and designated US-headquartered companies along with their UAE subsidiaries can receive covered advanced computing equipment without needing individual export licenses.
Related event: US Eases AI Chip Export Controls for the UAE(5 posts)→
More from Infra
- LLM Serving Metrics Thread: Why TPOT and Uptime Make or Break User Experience — abhijithneil · 2026-09-11
- PlanetScale launches sharded Postgres: 768 servers acting as one, 1PB scale — dhruv2038 · 2026-09-11
- Can a 7900 XTX 24GB run Qwen locally? Reddit seeks ROCm tok/s benchmarks — thenomadexplorerlife · 2026-09-11
- RTK Terminal Compression Cuts Tokens but Leaves Your AI Coding Bill Unchanged — Bartaseth · 2026-09-11
- SF Compute founder: buying compute is 'an absolutely awful experience' right now — IgorCarron · 2026-09-11
- SmolVM open-sources persistent computer infrastructure for agents that outlive chat sessions — aniketmaurya · 2026-09-11