Yesterday’s Reuters investigation exposes critical US power-grid vulnerabilities that Gulf leaders must address now—or risk their AI leadership ambitions.
Rendering shows G42’s Stargate AI campus rising outside Abu Dhabi; phase one delivers 200 MW in 2026 … More
The numbers coming out of the Gulf are staggering, and so are the implications.
The UAE’s G42 Stargate campus is set to bring 200 megawatts of power demand online by 2026, quickly scaling to a one gigawatt cluster. In Saudi Arabia, the HUMAIN and NEOM DataVolt projects will add another 3.4 GW. Combined, these sites demand more power than Lebanon consumes in a year—and they mark only the start of the Gulf’s AI-infrastructure surge. Stargate alone will absorb six percent of Dubai’s available supply, before summer heat doubles cooling loads each August.
On 1 July 2025 Reuters detailed how similar data center…
