Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – The United States and the United Arab Emirates are working to allow Abu Dhabi to buy some of the most advanced U.S.-made semiconductors in the way of its AI development, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday at Amirati Capital.

"Yesterday, the two countries also agreed to buy the UAE's path to state-of-the-art AI semiconductors from UAE, which is a big contract," Trump said on the last day of his four-day visit to the Middle East during his four-day visit to the Middle East.

The "very large contract" related to this could refer to a preliminary agreement with the UAE that allows it to import 500,000 of Nvidia's H100 chips per year, the most advanced chip produced by a U.S. company. This will accelerate the ability of the desert chief to build the data centers needed to power AI models.

In recent years, the UAE has made substantial investments in AI infrastructure to become a global hub for the technology. At the heart of the goal is U.S. semiconductors, which have not yet reached Washington's Arab Gulf allies due to national security concerns.

This could be a thing of the past as the Trump administration plans to revoke the Biden-era “AI proliferation rules” that even our friendly countries have strict export controls on advanced AI chips.

However, veteran security professionals and lawmakers, as well as some members of the Trump administration, reportedly, have expressed concern that eliminating these restrictions could open the door to U.S. sensitive U.S. technology to ultimately be in the hands of competitors such as China.

Trump's comments come the day after the White House announced a large AI campus in Abu Dhabi with the UAE, touted as the largest facility outside the United States

According to a release from the Ministry of Commerce, the data center will be built by UAE technology company G42, which will work with several companies at the facility. Its capacity will have 5 GW capacity and cover 10 square miles.

The name of the US company was not disclosed. A lawsuit from the top U.S. Tech CEO accompanied Trump on his tour of the Middle East, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Openai's Sam Altman, Softbank's Masayoshi son and Cisco president Jeetu Patel.