When data centres become targets of war
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to destroy OpenAI's $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi if the US proceeds with threatened attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure. The threat comes after a month of kinetic escalation in the region, with Iranian retaliatory strikes against Gulf energy infrastructure and commercial data centres.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening to destroy OpenAI's Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi. The campus is a $30bn joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi's sovereign investment vehicle. The facility is being built and financed by UAE artificial intelligence company G42 and will be operated jointly by OpenAI and Oracle. The threat is conditional, but comes after a month of escalation in the region. Iranian Shahed drones have already struck Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE, disrupting banking services and payment processors. The Stargate campus is designed to reach 1 gigawatt of total capacity, making it the single largest concentration of AI compute capacity outside the US.
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