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.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
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.
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| 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). |
Announcement · Actual:
Energization · Expected:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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.
OpenAI · May 22, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae/
OpenAI · May 22, 2025 · backs: capacity mw, status
https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae/
PR Newswire · backs: announced date
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/g42-provides-update-on-construction-of-stargate-uae-ai-infrastructure-cluster-302586430.html
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/
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/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· The National · relevance 0.90
· Semafor · relevance 0.95
· G42 · relevance 0.25
· OpenAI · relevance 0.25
PR Newswire · relevance 0.70
Crunchbase News · relevance 0.20
www.thenationalnews.com · relevance 0.90