Abu Dhabi's Aleria to deploy up to 16,000 Nvidia chips for sovereign AI infrastructure in the US

Abu Dhabi-based Aleria has announced a major expansion of its sovereign AI infrastructure, deploying up to 16,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra AI chips to the United States and 28 racks of next-generation DGX Vera Rubin systems to the UAE—marking one of the first regional installations of the platform. The deployment builds on a partnership between Aleria, NVIDIA, and DDN, with existing infrastructure already operational across both regions.

"Sovereign AI infrastructure provides nations and regions critical resources for managing their most critical assets—their data," said Marc Domenech, Vice President Enterprise META and CIS Region at NVIDIA. "Aleria's NVIDIA-powered sovereign AI factories provide the region with efficient, full-stack computing for the AI industrial revolution."

NVIDIA's AI infrastructure supports large-scale training and inference at both sites, while DDN delivers multi-petabyte storage systems engineered for data-intensive AI environments.

Eric Leandri, CEO of Aleria, emphasized the company's track record: "We did not come to market with a promise. We came with working infrastructure. Our sovereign AI structure is live in the UAE, running national workloads, and the results are what is driving this expansion. Deploying NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra in the United States—and DGX Vera Rubin to come in the UAE is the next chapter of something already proven."

Aleria's platform serves government, financial services, healthcare, energy, utilities, and telecommunications sectors, where data residency requirements and regulatory constraints necessitate sovereign deployment. The company offers a full-stack solution spanning data management, enterprise applications, and video AI, all pre-integrated for operation by governments and national enterprises without requiring internal machine learning expertise.

The latest deployment will bring 8,640 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs to the US initially, with plans to expand to 16,000. The DGX Vera Rubin system deployment to the UAE represents one of the first installations of this class of system in the region.