Data center campus
Stargate UAE
Stargate UAE is an announced AI data center campus. 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 · Private land · EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced
1 GW
claimed
Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
0.20 GW
reported
Energized
0 GW
reported
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.
| 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 |
The deal
- developer
- Khazna Data Centres (G42) · G42 subsidiary building and operating the cluster.
- tenant
- OpenAI · Anchor tenant; first international Stargate node.
- chip supplier
- Nvidia · ~100,000 GB300 Grace Blackwell chips in first 200MW.
- investor
- Oracle, SoftBank, Cisco · Named global partners in the Stargate UAE alliance.
Power
- Power source
- mixed
- Grid operator
- EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company)
- Interconnection
Financial structure
- 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
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. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.