Dubai-based telco Du and NextGenAI have partnered for the deployment of an advanced AI supercluster.

Unveiled last month at the GITEX Global event, the cluster is housed at Du’s DSO data center in Dubai and builds on the company’s previous 5MW deployment from 2024.

Comprising an unknown number of direct-to-chip liquid cooled Nvidia B300 GPUs, the expansion brings the cluster’s total capacity to more than 13MW.

In a statement, Du said the deployment represents a “fundamental reimagining of how AI workloads can be processed at scale,” with customers already able to access the computational resources offered by the cluster, which the telco said is of a capacity “previously unavailable in the Middle East market.”

Fahad Al Hassawi, CEO at Du, said: "Our partnership with NextGenAI represents Du's commitment to pioneering the future of AI infrastructure in the Middle East. Deploying the most advanced GPU cluster technology available today will help us meet current market demands as well as anticipate and shape the computational requirements of tomorrow's AI-driven economy. Our customers now have access to processing power that will accelerate their innovation timelines and competitive advantages."

Du currently operates five data centers across the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In April 2025, the company signed a $544.54 million deal with Microsoft to develop a new hyperscale data center in the UAE. Few details about the facility have been made public, but Microsoft will be the main tenant of the data center.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it had become the first company to be granted an export license by the Trump administration, allowing the company to ship Nvidia GPUs to the UAE. Despite the governments of the US and UAE striking a deal in May of this year for the export of several hundred thousand Nvidia chips to the Middle East, companies had faced delays receiving the necessary export licenses.

While licences have now seemingly started to be approved, last week President Trump told journalists that nobody “other than the United States” will have access to Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell GPUs. While the comments likely relate to the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China, they have caused confusion about the status of deals signed between Nvidia and foreign governments for Blackwell deployments.