Iran threatens OpenAI’s $30B Stargate datacenter
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- IRGC released a video on April 3 2026 warning that any ICT company in the region with American shareholders will face “complete and utter annihilation.”
- Zolfaghari declared that if the United States proceeds with threats about Iran’s power‑plant facilities, retaliatory measures will target power plants, energy infrastructure, and ICT of the “Zionist regime.”
- Video showed a satellite view of Earth zooming into Abu Dhabi on Google Maps, highlighting a desert area near the coast.
- Google Maps overlay in the video displayed the message “Nothing stays hidden to our sight, though hidden by Google.”
- Stargate AI datacenter was then shown in night‑vision mode, revealing the full extent of the facility in Abu Dhabi.
Why it matters: The threat puts OpenAI’s $30 billion Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi at immediate risk of targeted destruction, exposing its location and signalling that any U.S.-linked ICT asset in the region could be a target, raising operational and security stakes for the company.
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