Elliot Brown
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50 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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What this agreement does is it moves the UAE from a bucket of countries that includes Yemen and China and into a bucket that includes Europe and South Korea.
And it allows them to purchase unlimited chips or as many as the market will bear for AI, at least for its flagship AI company, G42, and for any American hyperscalers that are building data centers in the country.
Yeah, the UAE in particular has really made a big part of their strategy to be ahead on AI.
They want to become a huge data center hub.
And so they're right now building a giant data center outside of Abu Dhabi.
They want to build five gigawatts worth, which is, you know, the equivalent power of two and a half Hoover dams.
And so this would be one of the biggest concentrations of data centers for AI in the world.
And they just sort of see that as critical to becoming a world leader in AI, which is their goal.
Yeah, this has been a huge priority for the leadership in Abu Dhabi, particularly Sheikh Taqnoon bin Zayed, who's the brother of the president and the national security advisor.
He's been pushing since the Biden administration, making lots of trips to Washington to unshackle the UAE and let it buy tens of billions of dollars of chips.
And so they finally had success here after some smaller successes with both presidents because of their help with the Iran war.
And so the way the Commerce Department is casting this in the U.S.
is that this is a reward for its help with Operation Epic Fury.
Another thing is the UAE has really stood out in other ways as embracing the Trump administration's policies.
In the first term, they signed the Abraham Accords and were sort of the main power there, which established relations and trading between some of the Gulf states and Israel.
Yeah, so Shake Talk Noon controls G42, which is the main beneficiary of this.
He also personally invested in an entity that purchased a 49% stake in the Trump family's crypto company, World Liberty Financial.
And so that essentially meant that four days before the inauguration, Shake Talk Noon was enriching the president to a large sum.
It was the president reported $263 million of gains from that sale in 2025.
And that's one of the larger chunks of income he reported for the whole year.
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