Money and business in the Middle East.

Indicators

Announced capacity

MW · one-off

Data-centre or compute capacity announced for the project, in megawatts, as stated at announcement. Not a measure of operational capacity.

DataVolt Oxagon net-zero AI factory

360 MW (first phase, as announced Aug 2026)

First phase of the planned campus; the 1.5 GW figure is the full campus and the 100 MW that HUMAIN and DataVolt are developing together sits inside this phase.

NEOM·first phase, as announced Aug 2026·source dated 31 Aug 2026·updated 20 Oct 2026

  • joint HUMAIN–DataVolt development within phase one, as announced Aug 2026: 100 MW
  • as announced Feb 2025: 1,500 MW

Stargate UAE

1,000 MW (as announced May 2025)

G42·as announced May 2025·source dated 22 May 2025·updated 4 Oct 2026

Pure DC AUH01 (Yas Island)

48 MW (campus, as approved Apr 2026)

Pure DC·campus, as approved Apr 2026·source dated 27 Apr 2026·updated 4 Oct 2026

  • Building 1, operational: 20 MW

Gulf Data Hub ICAD 2

16 MW (planned, 16 MW each (undated page))

Gulf Data Hub·planned, 16 MW each (undated page)·undated source · read on 25 Oct 2026·updated 28 Oct 2026

HUMAIN

3,000 MW (target scale, as announced Nov 2026)

Planned AI data-centre capacity for HUMAIN by 2030 (3 GW); a target, not live capacity.

Saudi Aramco·target scale, as announced Nov 2026·source dated 1 Nov 2026·updated 3 Nov 2026

DataVolt

12 MW (as announced Jun 2026)

IT load of the Tashkent data centre, Uzbekistan; not a Saudi site.

Proparco·as announced Jun 2026·source dated 17 Jun 2026·updated 19 Oct 2026

Syntys

120 MW (regional target, as stated Jan 2026)

Regional target for MENA by 2030 (more than 120 MW); not live capacity.

Ooredoo Group·regional target, as stated Jan 2026·source dated 20 Jan 2026·updated 19 Oct 2026

Sources

  1. Amazon / AWS · aboutamazon.com
  2. NEOM · neom.com
  3. G42 · g42.ai
  4. Microsoft · news.microsoft.com
  5. Khazna Data Centers · khaznadatacenters.com
  6. Pure DC · puredc.com
  7. Gulf Data Hub · gulfdatahub.ae
  8. Saudi Aramco · aramco.com
  9. Proparco · proparco.fr
  10. Ooredoo Group · ooredoo.com