On 12 January 2026 Qatar and the United States signed the Pax Silica declaration on cooperation in advanced technologies.
What was announced
- It was signed by Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Sayed, Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs, and Jacob Helberg, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.
- It covers semiconductors, AI, cloud infrastructure, data centre capacity, cybersecurity, critical minerals and joint research.
- No investment figures were stated.
Our take
Advanced AI chips and cloud services are subject to export rules. Agreements like this one are part of keeping access to them open, which matters for the data centre plans announced in Qatar since.