The project is a joint effort involving UAE state-backed G42, plus OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group, and Cisco.

It’s been three months since SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman promised during a White House briefing to swiftly deploy $100 billion, and raise that figure to $500 billion

The $100 billion Stargate AI project backed by OpenAI and praised by President Trump has state officials and local landowners vying to host giant data centers.

Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt compute cluster, will be built by G42 and operated by OpenAI and Oracle. The collaboration will also include Cisco, offeri