--- title: "Stargate UAE (G42), Abu Dhabi, UAE — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy" source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uae description: "Stargate UAE: not yet due. 0 MW evidenced of 1,000 MW announced or estimated, end of August 2026 reading; operations promised by 31 December 2026." --- # Stargate UAE (G42), Abu Dhabi, UAE G42 (with OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco, SoftBank) 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. From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy) Download this campus: [CSV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/ledger-stargate-uae.csv) · [JSON](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/ledger-stargate-uae.json) Announced or estimated (IT load) 1,000 MW Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 0 MW The book’s verdict Not yet due 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. The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Not yet due**. - Evidence read 27 September 2026 - Today Nov 2026 - Promised 31 December 2026 **0 MW** evidenced at the end-of-August 2026 reading, of 1,000 MW announced or estimated (0%). ## The announcement **Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** 1,000 MW **Where the announcement was read:** [openai.com](https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae/) **When it was read:** 22 May 2025 ## The promise **Promised by:** 31 December 2026 **What was promised:** operations **Where the promise was read:** [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/stargate-uae-ai-datacenter-begin-operation-2026-2025-05-22/) ## 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](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-uae-revises-ai-data-090755337.html) **When it was read:** 27 September 2026 **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 **Who is involved:** - developer [G42](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/g42) - partner [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai) - partner [Oracle](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/oracle) - partner [NVIDIA](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/nvidia) - partner [Cisco](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/cisco) - partner [SoftBank](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/softbank) ## 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/commerce-uae-campus-may25) 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-1) due 6 April 2027 ## Campuses near it in the ledger - [Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-dona-ana-project-jupiter) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Shackelford / Frontier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Michigan / The Barn](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-michigan-the-barn) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Port Washington / Lighthouse](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-port-washington-lighthouse) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Milam County](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-milam-county) shares 2 parties - [Stargate Abilene](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/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). - [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests) - [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard) - [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases) - [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion) - [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory) - [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine) - [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion) - [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary) - [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people) - [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources) - [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes) - [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections) - [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1) - [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper) - [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent) - [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties) *The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. 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