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CEO Paul Dawalibi at TheBlock Fest Dubai – World Token Summit Opening Keynote
Compute access as competitive advantage For technology hubs, the binding constraint has moved from capital to silicon, with lead times on the highest-specification parts now running into years.
“ For years, technology hubs competed on tax incentives, funding and talent,” Paul says.“ Those things still matter. But they are no longer the deciding factor. The real constraint for AI companies right now is compute. NVIDIA B200 GPUs, the hardware serious AI workloads run on, are sold out worldwide and waitlisted into 2027.
“ Most founders building AI products today cannot access the infrastructure they need to build them properly. That is not a minor inconvenience. It is an existential bottleneck.
“ The hubs that win the next decade will not be the ones with the best tax structures. They will be the ones that remove the infrastructure barriers that slow AI companies down before they even get started.”
Sovereignty as an architectural guarantee Asked what separates operators chasing AI demand, Paul points to design decisions taken before the
24 September 2026