Board #46 - Barrel to Byte: How Oil Wealth is Funding the Global AI Race

• In Event: 75-310 - Poster Session: The Role of State Policies in Encouraging Economic Development

Brief Overview

Gulf states attract AI and data center contracts by leveraging a comparative advantage honed in the oil era — centralized authority, minimal political friction, & powerful SWFs — allowing them to outcompete democracies despite unfavorable conditions

Author

• Nishat Nayla, University of Georgia