Iran has publicly threatened to destroy the Stargate AI data center being built in Abu Dhabi, a $30 billion facility backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Cisco, escalating geopolitical tensions around America’s most ambitious AI infrastructure project.
The threat came from an Iranian military-linked account and has been widely circulated on social media in early April 2026, with posts pointing directly at the Stargate data center under construction in the UAE as a legitimate military target. The warning did…
