Nexus L&T Project Office, Al Bihouth, Al Dhafrah, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Current Power
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H100-equivalents
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Capital Cost
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Energy Provider
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Site Location
Tenants / Users
OpenAI #confident
Investors
Softbank,Oracle,NVIDIA,Cisco,G42
Construction Timeline · 4 events
2025-06-092028-01-012028-01-01
Status
1 GW of IT power is operational. We haven’t seen expansion beyond 200 MW as of November 2025. Optimistically, 8 more 100 MW buildings start construction in December 2025, in parallel, and take 1.5 years like the first two buildings, hitting 1 GW by Q3 2027. More realistically, there's some staggering of construction over several months, like Stargate Abilene. Our median estimate is January 2028.
Power (MW)
1400.0
IT Power (MW)
1000.0
H100-equiv
2,021,223
Cap-Ex ($B)
$38.31
Buildings Operational
10.0
Water (MGD)
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Notes
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.
- [News update with timelapse of construction](https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/stargate-uae-phase-1-in-two-years)
- [Announcement of the (separate) 100 MW Khazna Ajman data center](https://khaznadatacenters.com/press-release/khazna-announces-the-uaes-first-ai-optimized-data-center-and-the-largest-in-its-portfolio-powering-the-nations-drive-toward-ai-leadership/), which started earlier and has a similar design to the Stargate buildings.
- [News about the US approval of NVIDIA chips in the UAE](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/us-approves-several-billion-dollars-of-nvidia-nvda-ai-chip-sales-to-uae)