Middle East AI Data Center Feed

NEOM's industrial hub Oxagon has commissioned DataVolt to deliver a 1.5 gigawatt artificial intelligence campus that will underp in the megacity's autonomous services and national-scale research. The $5 billion first phase, due in 2028, is

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

Aramco Digital is partnering with Groq to establish a hyperscale inference complex in Saudi Arabia that will deploy Groq's Langua ge Processing Units at unprecedented scale. Marketed as the "world's largest inferencing data center," the pro

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) created Humain in 2025 as the kingdom's national AI infrastructure company, tasked with building sovereign AI compute at a scale that positions Saudi Arabia as a global AI leader. Construction bro

Equinix IL3 is a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data center in Istanbul, Turkey, scheduled for completion in Q3 2026. Located in the Ümraniye district, the 9-megawatt (MW) facility is built to LEED Platinum standards and aims to

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 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

Nebius and real estate developer Mega Or secured Israel's national tender to build a government-backed AI supercomputing hub in Modi'in outfitted with roughly 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Supported by a $45 million grant from the Israel Inn

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,

KAUST's Shaheen III supercomputer, ranked among the world's top 10 most powerful supercomputers at launch in 2024, is powered by HPE Cray EX hardware and uses AMD EPYC processors alongside NVIDIA GPUs. Shaheen III delivers approximately 44.

Syn‌tys, Ooredoo Qatar's data center arm, has rolled out the country's first sovereign AI cloud by deploying NVIDIA Hopper GP Us across its Tier III facilities in Doha. The launch equips government agencies, banks, healthcare providers, and

Shonfeld Data Services has commissioned a ₪1 billion AI supercomputer in Petah Tikva equipped with 2,032 NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs and a high-performance data fabric delivered in partnership with VAST Data. Marketed as Israel's first open-

Oman Data Park has upgraded its Muscat cloud campuses with NVIDIA H200 accelerators, adding to an existing fleet of A100, A40, a nd A10 GPUs to furnish the Sultanate's first domestically managed high-end AI platform. The expansion supports

The Aqaba Digital Hub has opened Jordan's first carrier-neutral Tier III facility with 6 MW of initial IT load, combining coloca tion space, an internet exchange, and high-density pods designed for AI and HPC deployments. Situated at the Re

Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region — il-central-1 — in August 2023. The region enables Israeli companies, government agencies, and global enterprises operating in Israel to run cloud workloads with local data resi

NVIDIA is building the Israel-1 AI supercomputer to serve the country's fast-growing ecosystem of more than 800 AI startups. The system, deployed in phases beginning in late 2023, will scale beyond 2,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs arranged in HGX clu

Saudi Telecom Company's cloud arm, stc Cloud, operates Saudi Arabia's largest national cloud infrastructure, serving as the backbone for the Kingdom's Vision 2030 digital transformation. The Riyadh data centers house AI workloads for Saudi

Google Cloud launched its Turkey region in Istanbul to serve one of the world's fastest-growing digital economies and a strategically positioned country bridging Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Turkey has a population of 85 milli

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 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)

Amazon Web Services launched its Middle East (Bahrain) region — me-south-1 — in July 2019, becoming the first major hyperscale cloud provider to offer a full region in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area. The region consists of three av

The NEOM Oxagon AI Data Center Campus is a massive 1.5 GW net-zero infrastructure project developed in partnership with DataVolt. Representing a $5 billion investment, the facility is a cornerstone of NEOM's strategic pivot toward becoming

"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

The Hexagon Data Center in Riyadh is described as the world’s largest government-owned AI data center facility. Breaking ground in January 2026, the 480 MW campus is operated by the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA). It is a Tier IV designe

Google and Turkcell are partnering on a $3 billion hyperscale data center project in Turkey, with groundbreaking scheduled for early 2026. The facility is designed to support the expansion of Google Cloud and AI services in the region, prov

As part of a $10 billion global hyperscale data center program, Asprofin Bank Corporation is developing its first next-generation AI facility in Qatar, scheduled for deployment in 2026–2027. Led by Sheikh Mohd Hamad A.M. Al Thani, the proje

Khazna Ankara, located in the Başkent Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ), is a 100 MW AI-ready data center designed to serve the growing demand for high-density compute in Turkey's capital. Developed by Khazna Data Centers (a subsidiary of G42

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

Microsoft’s Saudi Arabia East Azure region is a flagship hyperscale cloud development located in Dammam, scheduled to go live in Q4 2026. The region consists of three independent Availability Zones designed for high resilience and sovereign

The Qai-Brookfield AI Compute Center is the flagship project of a $20 billion joint venture between Qatar’s state AI company, Qai (a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority), and Brookfield Asset Management. Announced in late 2025, the

The Nebius & Mega Or Israel AI Hub is an 80 MW combined development across sites in Beit Shemesh and Masmiyya. Representing an $880 million investment, the facility is specifically designed for high-density GPU workloads, utilizing liquid-c

Announced in early 2025, Kuwait’s first AI-powered Microsoft Azure Region is a cornerstone of the nation’s 2035 Digital Transformation vision. The facility is designed to provide high-performance AI compute and sovereign data hosting for th

In late 2024, the Kuwait State Audit Bureau approved lease contracts for a major Google Cloud data center in the Sulaibiya Agricultural Area. Spanning 30,000 square meters, the facility is part of a trio of planned Google sites in Kuwait, i

Launched in January 2026, Bahrain’s first Edge AI-ready data center is a strategic partnership between Batelco (under the Beyon brand) and Qareeb Data Centers. Located within the 140,000-square-meter Beyon "Data Oasis" in Southern Bahrain,

Inaugurated in November 2025, the Ooredoo-NVIDIA Sovereign AI Lab is Kuwait’s first specialized facility equipped with NVIDIA H200 GPUs. The lab allows government agencies and local enterprises to build, train, and run advanced AI models wi