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Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi)

Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi)

Announced
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: United Arab Emirates

1 GW Stargate UAE compute cluster within the 5 GW UAE–US AI Campus in Abu Dhabi, built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle, with NVIDIA, Cisco and SoftBank as launch partners. First 200 MW phase expected live in 2026 (firmed to Q3 2026 in December 2025 reporting); construction well underway as of October 2025.

Capacity
1,000 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
35,000
Capex
Announced
May 31, 2025
Target operational
Sep 30, 2026

Delivery health score

58.5 /100
58.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-05-22).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Stargate UAE (Abu Dhabi) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-12-05 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. First 200 MW phase of Stargate UAE live

    Expected
    2 revisions

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Operator
Oracle
Operator
G42
Developer
G42
Investor
SoftBank Group
Investor
MGX
Investor
Nvidia
Chip Supplier
Cisco
Equipment Supplier

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. OpenAI · May 22, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae/

  2. OpenAI · May 22, 2025 · backs: capacity mw, status

    https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae/

  3. PR Newswire · backs: announced date

    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/g42-provides-update-on-construction-of-stargate-uae-ai-infrastructure-cluster-302586430.html

  4. www.thenationalnews.com · backs: expected date

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2025/12/05/stargate-uaes-first-phase-to-be-completed-in-third-quarter-of-2026/

  5. The National · Dec 5, 2025 · backs: gpu count estimated

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2025/12/05/stargate-uaes-first-phase-to-be-completed-in-third-quarter-of-2026/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · The National · relevance 0.90

  2. · Semafor · relevance 0.95

  3. · G42 · relevance 0.25

  4. · OpenAI · relevance 0.25

  5. PR Newswire · relevance 0.70

  6. Crunchbase News · relevance 0.20

  7. www.thenationalnews.com · relevance 0.90