May 09, 2026 Oman
Oman and Algeria are set to collaborate on developing data centers, alongside broader initiatives in artificial intelligence and digital government, according to Algerie Direct. The agreement focuses on exchanging expertise and exploring opportunities in digital transformation and innovation,...
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March 23, 2026 Armenia
Armenian startup Eleveight AI has installed 512 Nvidia B300 GPUs at its AI data center in Gagarin, with construction of the facility set to be completed this month. The company said the hardware is already in place, adding that the facility is designed to run on a renewable-heavy power mix and...
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March 12, 2026 Saudi Arabia
State-backed AI venture Humain has secured 211 land plots across Saudi Arabia for future data center expansion. In a recent statement to The Information, Humain’s CEO Tareq Amin said the firm’s strategy “is built on geographic diversity and multiple fiber-optic routes, which is possible because...
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March 02, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zone in the UAE is experiencing an outage after being “impacted by objects that struck the data center.” While AWS has not disclosed further details, the incident comes amid ongoing missile and drone attacks on the UAE attributed to Iran.The objects...
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February 07, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
An electric and autonomous vehicle developer is looking to move into the data center space.UAE-based Robo.ai last week announced that its Robo.ai Investments L.L.C.-FZ subsidiary has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with Tachyon9 Corporation, a US-based data center infrastructure...
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January 30, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Sharjah, a city in the United Arab Emirates, is looking to lure data centers to the area and signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DataCanvas International and AI Caravan. The MoU outlines a collaborative effort among the parties to explore opportunities for establishing and...
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January 15, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Indian cloud and managed IT service provider Zoho Corp has opened two data center locations in the UAE. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and are part of a AED 100 million ($27.23m) investment plan for the region Zoho announced in 2023."The opening of our data centers is part...
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January 10, 2026 Turkey
Turkish Airlines has laid the foundation stone at a groundbreaking ceremony for its planned development at Istanbul Airport in Turkey (Turkiye), including a data center. In total, the company is building eight new facilities at the airport and investing more than TRY 100 billion ($2.32bn)....
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November 25, 2025 Saudi Arabia
Center3 and Saudi ICT company Sahara Net have entered a strategic colocation partnership, under which Sahara Net will establish dedicated hosting services within Center3’s data center facilities across the Kingdom.“Our partnership with Sahara Net reflects Center3’s commitment to building an open...
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November 22, 2025 Saudi Arabia
Elon Musk’s xAI is partnering with Humain to build a 500MW data center in Saudi Arabia. As part of the agreement, xAI’s Grok models will be deployed in Saudi Arabia. A location for the first data center has not been revealed, but an announcement from the two firms said it will “become one of the...
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November 04, 2025 Bahrain
Bahraini telecoms group Beyon has launched a new data center and expanded a solar farm. The company announced at an event this week that it has completed and commissioned its new White Space Data Centre.Beyon CEO, Andrew Kvaalseth, said: “We were delighted to announce the completion of Batelco’s...
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September 30, 2025 Saudi Arabia
ByteBridge has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi tech provider Naizak to form a data center business. The MoU is expected to lead to a joint venture based in Saudi Arabia, which is “designed to accelerate the growth of hyperscale clients and AI-driven data centers across the...
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September 27, 2025 Qatar
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Blue Owl Capital Inc. this week announced the companies have entered into a strategic partnership agreement with the aim of "creating a digital infrastructure platform." The platform is intended to “accelerate global compute available to leading hyperscalers...
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August 25, 2025 Qatar
Meeza, a data center and IT firm in Qatar announced this week that it has secured a QAR 800 million ($219.3m) Commodity Murabaha bank facility from Dukhan Bank to fund its build-out. The financing will fund expansion plans to add 44MW of data center capacity. The first phase will deliver 24MW,...
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August 20, 2025 Oman
Middle Eastern telecoms firm Ooredoo has inaugurated a new data center and cable landing station (CLS) in Salalah, Oman, in the presence of Sayyid Marwan bin Turki, Governor of Dhofar, alongside Ooredoo Oman CEO Saoud Al Riyami. The company said the data center was a “milestone project that...
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August 15, 2025 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Northern Data and Core42, a G42 company, have signed an agreement to establish sovereign European AI cloud capacity. Under the partnership, Core42 will have access to up to 10,000 GPUs from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud business.Aroosh Thillainathan, Northern Data Group founder and CEO, said of the...
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August 13, 2025 Abu Dhabi
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 welcome...
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August 02, 2025 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
UAE-based Madari Space will pilot sending data centers into space in 2026. Details around the satellite/data center the company is planning to launch, as well as how much capital the company will be investing in the project, weren't shared. When asked about the company, Romaithi said that this...
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July 16, 2025 Bahrain
The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has launched a new data center, a result of an 18-month effort to transform the bank's infrastructure, with support from the Central Bank of Bahrain. The data center is Tier III design certified by Uptime Institute and located on the 6th floor of NBB's...
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May 30, 2025 Turkey
Turkish e-commerce company Trendyol this week announced a partnership with UAE-based Castle Investments to build and operate a 48MW facility in the Turkish capital.“As well as helping us to better serve our growing domestic and international customer base, it reinforces our commitment to...
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