Core42 is the neocloud division of G42. G42 also operates MGX (an investment fund) and Khazna (a datacenter development company). All are based in the UAE.
We have covered these companies extensively in our Datacenter Model, and public articles such as: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-arrives-in-the-middle-east-us-strikes-a-deal-with-uae-and-ksa with recent updates showing that a tit-for-tat deal of a measly 10T USD has resulted in an export license being granted and NVIDIA resuming shipments of GPUs to the UAE.
At this time we have not been able to access and test a cluster provided by Core42. We regret the difficulties and look forward to testing Core42 services in the future.
ClusterMAX 2.1 Update (April 2026)
Core42 is a division of G42 with a massive presence in the UAE and a growing presence in the US. With the backing of MGX, and the sister company Khazna Datacenters, all of whom are intimately involved with Stargate UAE, the group means business. Back on the US side, Core42 is also making moves. They have established small sites in San Jose, Grenoble, and 70MW of MI300X in Buffalo (via Terawulf). During our testing we were provided with both slurm and kubernetes clusters from that site, using AMD MI300X GPUs, and crucially some Broadcom Thor-II NICs. This was the first cluster we'd gotten with Thor-II during clustermax testing, and it was a battle. Every single container image we had previously tested on AMD clusters, and nearly every AMD base image they publish to rocm repos such as vllm, sglang, torchtitan, and MoRI are all built with AMDs own Pollara NICs. This meant downloading tarballs from Broadcom's driver search website, scp'ing the files over to the cluster nodes, and rebuilding containers from scratch. A headache to say the least. Notably, the Core42 engineering team was ready to help the entire way, from troubleshooting these driver recipe issues to debugging slurm user errors on our side it was a really strong showing of hands-on, proactive technical support. If Core42 launches some modern GPUs in the US or starts relaxing the compliance restrictions they have in place that prevent us from testing in the UAE sites (or anyone from outside UAE renting GPUs at those sites) we expect Core42 to quickly rise into the silver tier and beyond.