Openais ai datacenters in abu dhabi are actually being built – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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OpenAI’s AI datacenters in Abu Dhabi are actually being built.

Photos of the UAE datacenter construction site released Thursday show the footprints of the big buildings that OpenAI and its Stargate partners, Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco, and SoftBank say will house 16-gigawatts of compute power for everything from curing cancer to sexting. Thus far, construction of the first 200 megawatts is “well underway” to meet the 2026 deadline.

Construction site with cranes and vehicles surrounding the footprints of buildings.
Image: G42
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