Stargate AI Data Center

under construction

The Stargate AI data center is a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, Cisco, NVIDIA and UAE-based G42. It is designed to scale from an initial 200-megawatt phase in 2026 to a full 1-gigawatt capacity across a campus spanning approximately 19.2 square kilometers with up to 5 gigawatts of total planned capacity. When fully operational, it will be the largest data center deployment outside the United States. NVIDIA is supplying Grace Blackwell GB300 systems for the facility’s GPU clusters. Cisco is handling networking and security infrastructure. Oracle will operate the site alongside OpenAI. SoftBank has committed $100 billion to the broader Stargate initiative, which includes a campus in Abilene, Texas, along with the Abu Dhabi expansion. The Abu Dhabi site was designed to show that frontier AI compute infrastructure is deployable at scale in partner nations outside the U.S. The facility represents the physical compute layer underneath OpenAI’s API, supporting training and inference workloads for GPT-based models and autonomous agent services.