Khazna QAJ1 — Ajman AI Data Center

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-square-meter campus with 20 data halls rated at 5 MW each, backed by electricity supply from Etihad Water and Electricity and designed for phased delivery as demand for GPU-heavy workloads ramps. The site is the largest facility in Khazna's portfolio and one of the clearest signals that Gulf digital infrastructure is being retooled around AI-specific power density rather than conventional cloud colocation alone.

The public timeline is more nuanced than early launch coverage suggested. Khazna initially said the facility could be operational by Q3 2025, but its April 2025 update instead described QAJ1 as "quickly progressing" and said the initial project phase was due for completion in December 2026. By February 2026, Uptime Institute reported that the project had achieved Tier III Certification of Design Documents, which confirms the design basis but not a completed, operating campus. This record should therefore be read as a major under-construction AI facility with credible engineering progress, not as a live production campus.

Recent source quality also clarifies the cooling story. Khazna's 2025 and 2026 disclosures emphasize advanced liquid-cooling integration for high-density AI racks, while the Uptime certification specifically describes QAJ1 as designed to become the first Tier-certified AI data center with liquid cooling in the Middle East and North Africa. That makes older third-party descriptions of generic efficiency features less reliable than the later, more specific primary-source account of a modular, liquid-cooled design tuned for AI training and inference loads.

For adjacent context, compare this Ajman buildout with other United Arab Emirates entries on AI Data Center Index and use sibling property [Silicon Bench](https://siliconbench.radicchio.page) to track how Gulf sovereign AI ambitions line up with actual accelerator supply and deployment.