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Khazna Buys Land in Dammam for 200MW Facility

UAE data center firm Khazna this week announced the acquisition of 225,000 sqm (2.4 million sq ft) of land in Dammam to develop local data center capacity. The company said the site, the company’s first in the kingdom, will support up to 200MW of capacity.“Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia ha...

December 23, 2025

Khazna

Khazna Data Centers Secures $2.6bn Bank Financing

Khazna Data Centers has secured $2.62 billion in bank financing from two of the country’s banks, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) and First Abu Dhabi Bank, to grow its data center empire.“The criticality of our work is highlighted by the expanding scale, scope, and sophistication required to s...

September 06, 2025

Khazna

Zero Two Invests in APAC Data Center Firm Evolution

Zero Two has invested in Evolution, taking a co-controlling position alongside Warburg Pincus. Terms of the deal were not shared, though reports from Mingtiandi puts the figure at $325 million.Darren Webb, CEO and co-founder of Evolution Data Centres, said: “We are absolutely delighted to welc...

August 13, 2025

Abu Dhabi

ADNOC partners with e& for private 5G wireless networks

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has paired with telco e& to build a private 5G wireless network that spans 11,000 square kilometers which will be the largest private 5G wireless network ever built in the energy industry.“This landmark project with e& is a milestone step in A...

July 06, 2024

Abu Dhabi

Khazna unveils new data center in Abu Dhabi

Khazna Data Centers this week announced the launch of AUH6, a new data center in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna Data Centers, said: “AUH6 embodies Khazna's commitment to pushing boundaries of technological innovation and sustainability in data...

February 10, 2024

Khazna

Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to anno...

October 31, 2023

Abu Dhabi

Mubadala of Abu Dhabi, together with KKR, invested in CoolIT

The Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi disclosed earlier this year that it had invested in liquid cooling company CoolIT. In May 2023, the company invested alongside KKR in the Canadian company, with the latter acquiring the majority of the cooling business. The terms of the acquisition ...

July 06, 2023

Abu Dhabi

Benya Group And Khazna Data Centers Seek to Set Up Shop in Egypt

The largest network of hyper-scale data centers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Khazna Data Centers (Khazna), this week announced its intention to enter the Egyptian market alongside Benya Group, the country's top integrator of solutions, digital transformation, and ICT infr...

May 09, 2023

Khazna

Emerge to provide Khazna Data Centers with renewable energy from solar plant development

Emerge, a joint venture (JV) between Masdar and EDF, has signed an agreement with Khazna Data Centers to provide it with renewable energy from a new solar plant development. The ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) plant will provide power to Khazna's new data center in Masdar City, providin...

October 18, 2022

Abu Dhabi

Khazna Developing Two Data Centers in Dubai

Khazna Data Centers has announced that work has started on two new data centers in Dubai, UAE. The data centers are called DXB3 and DXB2, located in Ibn Battuta and Dubai Design District, respectively. DXB3 and DXB2 will have a combined data center capacity of 43MW. DXB2 will come online in...

October 12, 2022

Khazna

Khazna Data Centers Becomes Middle East’s Largest Data Center Provider

G42 and e& have merged their data centers to form Khazna Data Centers. With the merger, Khazna Data Centers is now operating 12 facilities. In addition, 13 more data centers are under construction, with three more being planned. Upon completion of all the planned facilities, Khazna DC w...

June 07, 2022

Khazna

Khazna Data Centers Developing Second Data Center at Masdar, UAE

UAE’s data center firm Khazna Data Centers has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The new data center is known as Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6). According to the company, it will offer up to 31.8MW of capacity. It is also scheduled to come online in Q3 2023. The CEO of ...

April 20, 2022

Khazna

Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on second data center in Masdar

Khazna Data Centers has announced it has broken ground on its second data center in Masdar, Abu Dhabi. The facility, named Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6), will have a capacity of 31.8 (MW) and is forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. Speaking about the company's data center footpr...

April 18, 2022

Abu Dhabi

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