Stargate UAE (G42; Abu Dhabi, UAE) was promised operations by 31 December 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 1,000 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: not yet due.
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The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it.
- Evidence read
- Today
- Promised
The announcement
- Announced or estimated capacity (IT load)
- 1,000 MW
- Where the announcement was read
- openai.com
- When it was read
The promise
- Promised by
- What was promised
- operations
- Where the promise was read
- reuters.com
At the close of the record
- Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026
- 0 MW
- Where the evidence was read
- ca.news.yahoo.com
- When it was read
- The book’s verdict
- Not yet due
The book’s note
1,000 MW is the OpenAI cluster inside a 5 GW campus. First 200 MW promised for 2026; The National dated it to Q3 2026 (ends 30 Sep, three days after the close), and Reuters on 11 Sep 2026 still had it ‘due to come online this year’. No energization announcement found to 27 Sep (close sweep, ch12 §2). Slippage matrix row 8.
Also
Filings that bear on it
- US Department of Commerce, “UAE and US Presidents attend the unveiling of Phase 1 of new 5GW AI campus in Abu Dhabi,” press release, 15 May 2025 Commerce announced on 15 May 2025 a planned 5-gigawatt UAE-US AI campus in Abu Dhabi, to be built by G42, breaking ground on its first gigawatt, with compute “reserved for US hyperscalers and approved cloud service providers.”
The dated tests that name it
- Chapter 13, the license, not the land due 6 April 2027
Campuses near it in the ledger
- Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter shares 2 parties
- Stargate Shackelford / Frontier shares 2 parties
- Stargate Michigan / The Barn shares 2 parties
- Stargate Port Washington / Lighthouse shares 2 parties
- Stargate Milam County shares 2 parties
- Stargate Abilene shares 2 parties
Questions about this campus
- Is Stargate UAE energized?
- Stargate UAE (G42; Abu Dhabi, UAE) was promised operations by 31 December 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 1,000 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: not yet due.
- When was Stargate UAE promised to be energized?
- Stargate UAE was promised operations by 31 December 2026.
- Who is building Stargate UAE?
- G42 (developer), OpenAI (partner), Oracle (partner), NVIDIA (partner), Cisco (partner), SoftBank (partner).
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Stargate UAE.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uae (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-stargate-uae-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Stargate UAE}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uae},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}