Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi

An October 2025 representation of OpenAI’s UAE Stargate information halfway nether construction. | Image: G42

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has published a video threatening OpenAI's planned Abu Dhabi datacenter if the US follows done connected threats to onslaught the country's powerfulness plants, arsenic reported earlier by Tom's Hardware. The video, which was published to an Iranian state-backed quality outlet's X account connected April 3rd, says the IRGC volition transportation retired the "complete and utter annihilation" of US-linked vigor and exertion companies successful the region, earlier showing an representation of OpenAI's $30 cardinal in-progress Stargate facility successful the United Arab Emirates.

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