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Desert heat derates Stargate UAE from 1.3 GW to 1 GW

development2026-01-04

Claim

OpenAI's Stargate UAE was heat-derated from 1.3 GW to 1 GW because of desert temperatures.

Reported metric: 1.3 GW → 1 GW

Reporting date: 2026-01-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 4, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Stargate UAE

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Welcome to January 4, 2026

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OpenAI

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Supersedes

Stargate UAE tracks toward a 1-GW on-site gas plant

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Welcome to January 4, 2026

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Desert heat derates Stargate UAE from 1.3 GW to 1 GW
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-04
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-04-stargate-uae-heat-derated
Claim: OpenAI's Stargate UAE was heat-derated from 1.3 GW to 1 GW because of desert temperatures.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to January 4, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-4-2026
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