OpenAI Stargate UAE
Under construction; G42 is recorded as owning the AI hardware inside this site
Description quoted from Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers
The Stargate data center campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is the first non-US Stargate cluster announced by OpenAI. We estimate power capacity based on company announcements and the scale of buildings in satellite imagery, and also use that imagery to estimate the construction timeline. Compute capacity is based on reported export agreements with the US, which suggest that G42 and/or Oracle can acquire 100,000 state-of-the-art NVIDIA chips each year.
Source: Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers, CC BY 4.0
Site data: Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers.
Ownership and operation
AI hardware owner · source marks likely
G42 1 finding
Recorded parent
Which organisation owns the AI hardware inside it?
AI hardware owner · source marks likely G42. “Owner: G42 #likely” source
Uses the compute
Export controls and government links
No export-control designations were found in the checked company chains.
Headquarters jurisdiction
A company in the ownership chain is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates: Not a Wassenaar participant; Executive Office for Control & Non-Proliferation administers Federal Law No. 13 (2007). Export-control regimes listed for this jurisdiction: UAE Federal Law No. 13 (2007) export controls.
Capacity
No power figure is recorded for this site.
Stargate UAE / Abu Dhabi 5GW AI Campus (OpenAI / G42 / Oracle) has 5 records, and their power figures are never added together. Across the platform, recorded totals count the marked figure once; operating totals count a member’s figure only if it is operating capacity. Measurement scope is unrecorded for 1 of them.
Scope: announced campus envelope · Status: under construction · counted in recorded totals
Scope: not stated · Status: under construction
OpenAI Stargate UAE
Scope: announced campus envelope · Status: announced
Scope: named cluster (phase 1) · Status: announced
Scope: named cluster (phase 2) · Status: announced
Methods and sources
Ownership roles
Title identifies the legal owner of the site; operation identifies who runs it. AI-hardware ownership follows the catalog’s attribution of the machines inside, whose owner may lease the facility.
Each role requires its own attribution. An operator named in a source supplies evidence of operation only.
Parent companies
Ownership checks start with each company named at the site and follow recorded parent relationships. A company holding several roles is checked once. Its linked company page lists the relationships and their sources; further parents may remain undocumented.
Level 1 identifies a company at the site, level 2 its parent, and each further level another parent. Export-control designations and government investments are assigned to the company concerned.
Missing values
Unrecorded roles remain blank. Findings whose company position is unresolved stay in the list with that position labelled unknown.
Publication limits
Subscription corporate data helps identify parent relationships and sovereign investments. Publication is limited to relationship classes and supporting public sources; licensed records, identifiers and values are withheld.
Epoch AI estimates capacity using satellite imagery, permits and corporate disclosures. Its catalog is the source for this site record.
Five records describe the announced 5 GW Abu Dhabi campus programme and projects within it. Recorded totals count the 5,000 MW campus envelope once; no member is operating, so operating totals exclude the campus. Stargate UAE is the approximately 1 GW anchor project; the cited reporting targeted its first approximately 200 MW cluster for 2026. The full 5 GW envelope should not be read as capacity already under construction. The duplicate 5,000 MW estimate and the 200 MW and 1,000 MW phase figures remain visible for comparison but are excluded from both totals.
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