Iran's IRGC Threatens Destruction of OpenAI's $30 Billion Stargate Data Center in UAE

Iran's IRGC escalated its threats against US-linked technology infrastructure.

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IRGC warned that OpenAI's $30 billion Stargate data center would face complete and utter annihilation if the US attacked Iranian power plants.

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The video used satellite imagery to reveal the data center's desert location.

The threat marked an unprecedented escalation of AI infrastructure becoming a direct proxy target.

The Stargate project is a $500 billion joint venture involving OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, Nvidia, and Cisco.

The Abu Dhabi site was meant to solve OpenAI's challenge of securing enough compute power.

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The threat came amid a broader Iranian missile campaign that had already damaged AWS data centers.

Iran framed the threat as retaliatory against growing US strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure.

“Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States”

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Zolfaghari warned retaliatory measures shall be promptly enacted.

The video displayed the message Nothing is hidden from our sight, though hidden by Google.

Analysts noted this represented a new kind of asymmetric threat.

The IRGC named major global firms associated with Stargate.

Seeking Alpha framed the threat as significant risk to regional stability.

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Multi-billion-dollar technology ventures were squarely in the crosshairs of geopolitics.