OpenAI’s Stargate consortium will launch its first non-U.S. AI megacenter in Abu Dhabi, targeting 200MW of capacity by 2026. Backed by Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and a Trump-led policy shift, the 1GW project aims to serve nearly half the world’s population within a 2,000-mile radius. It also marks the first deployment under OpenAI’s new “OpenAI for Countries” initiative focused on sovereign AI infrastructure.