Because of this, I agree that it is a very good thing for the US to have more AI compute, including more AI supercomputers, than China. But if you

Because of this, I agree that it is a very good thing for the US to have more AI compute, including more AI supercomputers, than China. But if you take this argument seriously at all, the implication of the UAE deal becomes plain: this is a significant power boost for the UAE’s autocratic government. This is a wonderful exposition of how Realpolitik allows one can have an anti-autocracy cake and eat it too.