UAE Stargate's AI campus to see first 200 MW come online in 2026: report

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Jonathan Kitchen

The first 200 megawatts of a planned 5-gigawatt AI campus for the Stargate project in the United Arab Emirates is expected to come online next year, Reuters reported, citing an official from Abu Dhabi-backed AI startup G42.

"Building towards the (first) 1 GW, we have 200 MW that should come online next year," said Talal Al Kaissi, G42's acting group chief global affairs officer, at the AI and tech GITEX conference in Dubai, the report added [https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/first-200-mw-uaes-stargate-ai-campus-come-online-next-year-2025-10-14/].

G42 did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/NVDA]), Oracle (NYSE:ORCL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ORCL]), OpenAI (OPENAI [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/OPENAI]), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/CSCO]), SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SFTBY]) (OTCPK:SFTBF [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SFTBF]) and G42 are collaborating [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4451632-nvidia-openai-among-big-tech-bringing-stargate-ai-project-to-uae] to build Stargate UAE. The companies announced the project in May during U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East. In June, it was reported that the multi-billion-dollar deal to build data centers for AI was facing [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4456246-us-uae-multi-billion-dollar-ai-project-stargate-faces-hurdles] hurdles due to continuous concerns related to security.

It was previously reported that the first 200-megawatt AI cluster is expected to go live in 2026 and that the AI campus in Abu Dhabi is supposed to eventually host 5 gigawatts of data centers.

"The rest of the four gigawatts, we're also in deep discussions with other hyperscalers from the U.S.," said Al Kaissi, the report added.

Al Kaissi said he regularly visited Washington to support good working relations, the report noted.

In January, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle's Co-Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison had joined Trump to announce a $500B four-year initiative called Stargate to build out AI infrastructure.

OpenAI and G42 are both backed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MSFT]).

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