Data center campus
Stargate UAE
Stargate UAE is an AI data center campus developed by Stargate Infrastructure in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi. 1 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · Stargate Infrastructure · Private land · EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 1 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: Q3 2026. 0 months away. Claimed by G42 / Khazna Data Centres (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 1 GW | 2025-10-13 | claimed | press release |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2026-08-17 | reported | press release |
| Under construction | 0.20 GW | 2025-10-13 | reported | press release |
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
Developer
Location
Land
Announced-to-energized gap
Reported facts
Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.
- Location
- Abu Dhabi, UAE (first international Stargate node)
- Developer
- Khazna Data Centres (G42)
- Announced capacity
- 1 GW cluster, part of a broader 5 GW UAE-US AI Campus
- First-phase build
- 200 MW under construction, ~100k Nvidia GB300 chips
- First 200 MW target
- Q3 2026 (as of Oct 2025 construction update); still upcoming as of Aug 2026
- Reported total investment
- $30B (Stargate UAE / UAE-US AI Campus)
- 1 GW cluster investment
- $10B
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Chip supplier
- Nvidia
On the data center map
Every tracked data center is on this map, centered on Stargate UAE. Pan or zoom out to see how close rivals are building.
Approximate pin. We hold a city-level coordinate for this campus, not a verified site coordinate, so the marker shows the city rather than the parcel. The satellite strip and building outlines stay off until the site coordinate is sourced.
- Announced capex
- $10B
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Cost per MW
- $10M/MW
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
The deal
- developer
- Khazna Data Centres (G42) · G42 subsidiary building and operating the cluster.
- investor
- Oracle, SoftBank, Cisco · Named global partners in the Stargate UAE alliance.
- tenant
- OpenAI · Anchor tenant; first international Stargate node.
- chip supplier
- NVIDIA · ~100,000 GB300 Grace Blackwell chips in first 200MW.
- developer
- Stargate Infrastructure
Power
- Power source
- mixed
- Grid operator
- EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company)
- Interconnection
Silicon on site
Every AI chip publicly attributed to Stargate UAE on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.
- as of 2025-10-16
~100k Nvidia GB300 chips for first 200 MW phase
reported
Why here
Stargate UAE sits on private land in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi. It connects to the EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) grid, draws on mixed power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- 1 GW cluster investment
- up to $10B. Up to $10 billion of investment backing the 1 GW Abu Dhabi cluster journalist report
- Reported total Stargate UAE / UAE-US AI Campus investment
- $30B. Aggregate figure widely reported for the ~5GW campus; not itemized in G42 construction update. journalist report
Regulatory paper trail
The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.
Timeline
- Aug 2026financial recordedcapex: 1 GW cluster investment
- Sep 2026Current: Under construction
Sources
- G42 Provides Update on Construction of Stargate UAE AI Infrastructure Cluster · G42 / PR Newswire
- Global Tech Alliance Launches Stargate UAE · G42
- Stargate UAE: OpenAI to build world's largest AI data centre in Abu Dhabi · Gulf News
49b3f935-bec2-46b6-9958-1d30f62fee79 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
Head-to-head
Common questions
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Cite this page
DEPLOY. (2026). Stargate UAE: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/stargate-uae-abu-dhabi
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