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United Arab Emirates AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for United Arab Emirates using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

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OpenAI–G42 Abu Dhabi AI Megacluster
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2026
Announced5.0 GW

OpenAI and the United Arab Emirates-based G42 have unveiled plans for a 5 gigawatt AI megacluster in Abu Dhabi that would dwarf existing hyperscale campuses. The partners expect to sequence construction, bringing roughly 200 megawatts onlin

G42 “Stargate” UAE–US AI Campus (Abu Dhabi)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2025
Under Construction5.0 GW

Abu Dhabi's G42 is developing a 10-square-mile AI campus dubbed “Stargate” that will host U.S. hyperscalers delivering frontier model training and sovereign cloud services across the Middle East. The first 200 megawatts of the 5 GW build-ou

Khazna Ajman AI Data Center (UAE)
Ajman, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
2025
Under Construction100 MW

Khazna Data Centers is developing the UAE's first purpose-built AI campus in Ajman, delivering 100 megawatts of modular capacity across twenty 5 MW halls. Announced at GITEX 2024 and slated to open by the third quarter of 2025, the facility

AI71 — Abu Dhabi AI Enterprise Cloud
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2024
Operational50 MW

AI71 is an Abu Dhabi-based AI company that commercializes the Falcon family of models (developed by TII) for enterprise deployments. The company provides an API platform for Falcon models and customized AI solutions for governments, banks,

Technology Innovation Institute — Falcon AI Compute (UAE)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2022
Operational30 MW

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi's advanced scientific research center, developed the Falcon series of large language models — which became the most downloaded open-source AI models in the world in 2023. The Falcon 40B a

Microsoft Azure — UAE North (Dubai)
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2019
Operational200 MW

Microsoft Azure launched its UAE North region in Dubai in October 2019, making it the first global cloud provider to offer a dedicated UAE cloud region. The region pairs with Azure UAE Central in Abu Dhabi (operated in partnership with G42)

Stargate UAE — Abu Dhabi AI Cluster
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Under Construction1.0 GW

"Stargate UAE" is a landmark 1 GW hyperscale AI infrastructure cluster located within a larger 5 GW AI campus in Abu Dhabi. Developed by G42 in collaboration with Microsoft and OpenAI, the facility is designed to support the training and in

Khazna QAJ1 — Ajman AI Data Center
Ajman, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Under Construction100 MW

Khazna QAJ1 is a 100 MW AI-optimized data center under construction in Ajman and positioned by Khazna as the first purpose-built AI data center in the UAE and wider region. Khazna's October 2024 launch announcement described a 100,000-squar