Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if the US proceeds with threatened attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure.

A senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to destroy OpenAI’s flagship AI data centre in Abu Dhabi, releasing a video that opens on a blurred satellite view of the desert site before switching to sharp night-vision footage of the sprawling Stargate campus. The message overlaid on screen reads: “Nothing stays hidden to our sight, though hidden by Google.”

The video was released on 3 April 2026 by Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari of the IRGC, and represents a significant hardening of Iran’s position. Just days earlier, the Guard had named 18 ...