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South Korea, UAE partner to advance AI innovation
South Korea’s presidential AI committee will set up a task force to boost AI collaboration with the United Arab Emirates.
The team will be led by the presidential secretary for AI policy and future planning and the vice chair of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
This move follows agreements made during a recent summit between South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The task force will coordinate a joint public-private system to support the partnership and propose investment projects by the end of the year.
Five working groups, managed by different government ministries including Science and ICT and Climate, Environment and Energy, will make up the team.
The two countries signed seven MOUs to expand cooperation in AI, energy, and defense.
South Korea will also join the UAE’s Stargate project, which plans to develop AI data centers in Abu Dhabi, starting with a 200-megawatt facility next year as part of a larger AI campus.
🔗 Source: Yonhap
🧠 Food for thought
Implications, context, and why it matters.
- South Korea–UAE task force will propose investment projects by year-end to match Stargate’s schedule (a government-backed plan for AI data center campuses in Abu Dhabi), with the first 200-megawatt AI cluster set for 2026 1.
- Long-lead gear for Stargate UAE is purchased, with mechanical systems arriving onsite, and the 5-gigawatt campus spans 10 square miles 21. It will run tenders for power, liquid cooling, networking gear, construction through 2026 and later.
- Five working groups run by the Ministry of Science and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) plus ministries for Climate, Environment, Energy position South Korea for energy-heavy bids.
- Stargate UAE will draw power from nuclear, solar, and natural gas sources 1. That mix suits South Korean energy tech firms.
- Data center operators and infrastructure vendors that provide liquid cooling or high-density power should watch Abu Dhabi procurement portals 3. ADGOV Cloud, an Abu Dhabi program to consolidate and modernize government cloud services, closed bids in February to fold 40+ entities 3.
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