{"id":980704,"date":"2025-12-18T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980704"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:50:05","slug":"qatar-bets-on-cheap-power-to-catch-up-in-gulf-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/18\/qatar-bets-on-cheap-power-to-catch-up-in-gulf-ai-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar bets on cheap power to catch up in Gulf AI race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Qatar is banking on its abundant, low-cost energy to make up for lost time in the Gulf&#8217;s artificial intelligence race, hoping that cheap power and deep pockets will help it catch up with regional rivals that have already secured a head start. <\/p>\n<p>The launch of Qai, backed by the country&#8217;s $526 billion sovereign wealth fund and a $20 billion joint venture with Brookfield, marks Qatar&#8217;s most ambitious move yet into a sector that is reshaping global technology and economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Qatar is banking on its abundant, low-cost energy to make up for lost time in the Gulf&#8217;s artificial intelligence race, hoping that cheap power and deep pockets will help it catch up with regional rivals that have already secured a head start. The launch of Qai, backed by the country&#8217;s $526 billion sovereign wealth fund and a $20 billion joint venture with Brookfield, marks Qatar&#8217;s most ambitious move yet into a sector that is reshaping global technology and economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}