{"id":233187,"date":"2026-06-17T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:40:14","slug":"how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gulf Funds Are Buying The Backbone Of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daraabasiita\/2026\/06\/17\/how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai\/\">How Gulf Funds Are Buying The Backbone Of AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daraabasiita\/2026\/06\/17\/how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daraabasiita\/2026\/06\/17\/how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 18:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sovereign wealth funds, particularly Gulf states&#8217; funds, invested heavily in artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure in 2025, with commitments reaching $66 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The funds have shifted from passive investments in AI companies like Nvidia or Microsoft to investing directly in underlying infrastructure, including data centers, power, and debt associated with AI.<\/li>\n<li>This move represents a strategic decision to control the foundational infrastructure that supports AI technologies, believing that this will provide steadier returns as compute demand consistently grows.<\/li>\n<li>This strategy illustrates a longer-term, patient capital approach compared to earlier venture capital-style investments in AI.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the benefits, this infrastructure-focused approach concentrates risk on a single thesis: the sustained growth of compute demand. This concentration could lead to compounded losses if demand does not meet expectations.<\/li>\n<li>Sovereign funds have the advantage of long investment horizons and strong financial backing, which can help weather market downturns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Gulf Funds Are Buying The Backbone Of AI https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daraabasiita\/2026\/06\/17\/how-gulf-funds-are-buying-the-backbone-of-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-17 18:29:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a331ea498075daa4672e648\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-233187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233189,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233187\/revisions\/233189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}