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Inside e& UAE and Core42's Sovereign AI Cloud Strategy | Data Centre Magazine
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22 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
e& UAE and Core42 have launched a Sovereign AI Compute platform combining local GPU infrastructure with carrier-grade connectivity to enable UAE organisations to build and deploy AI applications while keeping data in-country. The service targets government, finance, healthcare and critical infrastructure sectors facing GPU shortages and data residency constraints.
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If you sell AI software or services into the Middle East, your customers now have local GPU capacity and won't need to route workloads offshore. The economics of deployment have flipped—the constraint isn't availability anymore, it's integration and operational handoff. Call your existing UAE customers this week; Core42 and e& will be in their inbox within days.
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AI Infrastructure · Cloud Infrastructure · sovereign-compute · gpu-infrastructure · data-residency · middle-east-expansion · enterprise-ai · critical-infrastructure