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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of the Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi.
Iran's IRGC has specifically threatened OpenAI's Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi by name for the first time.
KEY POINTS
- The Stargate UAE facility is projected to be the largest AI compute cluster outside the US, costing over $30bn.
- Iran's March 2026 drone strikes marked the first deliberate state attacks on commercial data centres in history.
- Insurers and lenders are now reassessing risk models for Middle Eastern AI infrastructure due to credible attack threats.
- A successful attack on Stargate could shift future AI infrastructure investment away from the Gulf to other regions.
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