As of 25 September 2026, Mubadala described Stargate UAE as under construction, with its initial 200MW cluster due to begin operations in late 2026.

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Claim LD11-HQ-C17 (v1.0)

As of 25 September 2026, Mubadala described Stargate UAE as under construction, with its initial 200MW cluster due to begin operations in late 2026.

Research opportunities this claim motivates

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Which layers stay foreign when sovereign AI compute projects go live?Stargate UAE was under construction with a first 200MW cluster due in late 2026, which makes it a natural case to follow from announced to operational status.

Provenance and status

Claim type: Fact
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with a qualifier
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: Current 200MW operational capacity or full-campus deployment
Limitations: Project sponsor source; future schedule can slip
Source (as cited): Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners
Source type: Vendor or company document (recorded as “State-investment-company primary”)
Institutional position: UAE state investment entity
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

Sources this version cites

Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners (Vendor or company document)
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All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.

Claim type (coded): FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): VENDOR_PRIMARY
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD11-HQ-C17	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	As of 25 September 2026, Mubadala described Stargate UAE as under construction, with its initial 200MW cluster due to begin operations in late 2026.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	F — State capacity and sovereignty	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners	source_ids: SRC-LD11-MUBADALA-LETTER-TO-PARTNERS-2026
7	SOURCE TYPE	State-investment-company primary	classes: VENDOR_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	UAE state investment entity	—
9	SCOPE	Stargate UAE; operational MW; Sep 2026 status	—
10	DESIGN	Project-status disclosure	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Construction / planned capacity	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	n.a.	—
13	COMPARATOR	Announced broader 1GW/5GW plans	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Initial 200MW not yet operating on the official timeline at the cut	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Capacity-state discipline for sovereignty claims	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Current 200MW operational capacity or full-campus deployment	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Project sponsor source; future schedule can slip	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Reuters reporting adds redesign/security context without overriding official status	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	UAE / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Future compute access is concentrated in state/corporate partnerships	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D1, L-B, LD-11, LD-14	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Go-live confirmation or revised construction status	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D1 (DOMAIN); L-B (LENS); LD-11 (LIVING_DEBATE); LD-14 (LIVING_DEBATE)

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Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners” → Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners (SRC-LD11-MUBADALA-LETTER-TO-PARTNERS-2026--v1.0) — Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners; class VENDOR_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

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Concentration, Stack & Sovereignty (v0.1) LD-11

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). As of 25 September 2026, Mubadala described Stargate UAE as under construction, with its initial 200MW cluster due to begin operations in late 2026 [Claim LD11-HQ-C17, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld11-hq-c17/v1.0/

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Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 634e75fcdfd1bbb88f58f37fb8c9305a12f8af17472971aa383ea234b13c95ec.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1Ff_IzUBMpax35rKovu0vxXr1WTtpfCDP; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 17 — LD11-HQ-C17 ” SHA-256 cf49630c5ece39febe3059c81a9790a11447bf8d37aa4e2c7c06eb8fbdd5944d; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r06-ld11-claim-ledger-v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD11-MUBADALA-LETTER-TO-PARTNERS-2026--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 17 — LD11-HQ-C17 cites "Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #41 Source inventory): HQ-Q7; Batch 03 §2; ledger C17 fields 6/7/8 (the state-investment character of the issuer).
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD11-MUBADALA-LETTER-TO-PARTNERS-2026--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "Mubadala 2026 Letter to Partners"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #41 Source inventory): HQ-Q7; Batch 03 §2; ledger C17 fields 6/7/8 (the state-investment character of the issuer).