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Winston Ma

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Winston Ma is the GPIFF Executive Director and Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law and author of The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy.

Data centers under fire test Gulf sovereign AI ambitions

Deep pockets and conviction will help the region in its push to become a global AI compute hub, despite the war.
Supercomputer Andromeda at a data center in Santa Clara, California.Rebecca Lewington/Cerebras Systems/Reuters.