Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that any damage to its power infrastructure would be met with retaliation and used a new video to single out the Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi, one of the Gulf’s biggest planned artificial intelligence projects. The footage showed a view of Earth from space that zoomed into Abu Dhabi on Google Maps, then cut to a night-vision image of the same area with the full footprint of the site visible.
Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari said the IRGC’s response would be “complete and utter annihilation” of U.S. and Israeli facilities if Washington carried out threats against Iran’s power plants. He also said all power plants, energy infrastructure and information and communications technology belonging to the Zionist regime and similar regional companies with American shareholders would face retaliation, adding that “Nothing is hidden from our sight.All ICT companies in the region will be considered legitimate targets for us.”
The threat lands at a moment when regional cloud and AI infrastructure has already been drawn into the conflict. The Stargate site was described as a $30 billion, 1GW datacenter, and the warning follows reports that Iran had already done enough damage in rocket strikes to force some Amazon AWS data centers to shut down. Over recent weeks, Iran has also made similar threats against Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google and 14 other U.S. tech companies.
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The video did not name a timeline for action, but it made clear the scope of what Tehran now sees as fair game. By putting a major data center in Abu Dhabi on screen and pairing it with threats against power and communications systems, the IRGC signaled that the next phase of the conflict could reach deep into the region’s digital backbone, not just its military or energy sites.
