Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi
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Source: The Verge (AI)April 6, 2026
Summary
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, a military organization) published a video threatening to destroy OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi if the US attacks Iran's power plants. The threat was posted to social media on April 3rd and specifically showed images of OpenAI's $30 billion facility under construction in the United Arab Emirates.
Classification
Attack SophisticationNation-State
Impact (CIA+S)
availability
AI Component TargetedInference
Affected Vendors
OpenAI
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/907427/iran-openai-stargate-datacenter-uae-abu-dhabi-threat
First tracked: April 6, 2026 at 02:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%