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Agility Envisions Data Center Facilities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, & Ghana

This week, Agility Logistics Parks (ALP), a developer of industrial and logistics properties in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, announced the inauguration of four tailored, master-planned data center campuses in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, and Ghana. ALP's current parks are being pre...

March 08, 2023

Middle East

Techtonic planning 16MW underground data center

Techtonic is investing hundreds of millions of NIS ($55m+) in an underground data center, referred to as Titan 4, in Bet Shemesh, 20km east of Jerusalem. The facility will have a capacity of 16MW facility and pegged span an area of 15,000 square meters (161,450 sq ft) across 10 data halls. It ...

February 21, 2023

Israel

Digital DEWA launches in Dubai

Digital DEWA subsidiary Moro Hub has announced the launch of its 16,030 sqm (172,566 sq ft) Dubai data center, the world's largest solar-powered data center. It will have a capacity of 100MW, which be 100 percent powered by solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park in Saih...

February 17, 2023

Dubai

Edgnex Rebrands as Damac Data Centres, Promises Additional Projects

The new data center company Edgnex, founded by the Dubai real estate company Damac, has changed its name to Damac Data Centres and revealed plans for a 35MW data center. This week, the company announced that Edgnex had changed its name to Damac Data Centres to serve its clients better and upho...

February 14, 2023

Dubai

Alibaba plans expansion near Turkish capital of Ankara

Alibaba has announced that it is planning a data center near the Turkish capital Ankara. According to reports, the facility is part of a more than $1 billion investment in the country, which includes the development of a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport alongside the data center outside Ankar...

January 10, 2023

Turkey

Goldacre Signs JV with Levinstein To Develop Data Center in Israel and Launch Middle Eastern Business

Goldacre and Levingstein Group have entered into a joint venture to launch a data center business for the Middle East data center market. The two companies secured land in the city of Netanya, Israel, to develop their first data center. NED Data Centers, a subsidiary of Goldacre’s parent compa...

December 06, 2022

Israel

Türk Telekom Launches New Data center & Cloud Business

Turk Telekom, a Turkish telecommunication company, has formed its cloud and data center businesses into a new unit. The telco launched Turk Telekom earlier in the month as a stand-alone business offering a virtual data center, backup, server, storage, and disaster recovery solutions. The state...

November 18, 2022

Turkey

Dubai's Moro Hub named world's largest solar data center

The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Dubai's Moro Hub the title of the largest solar-powered data center in the world. Owned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), with a capacity of 100 MW data center, entirely fueled by DEWA-owned 3,000MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum So...

November 17, 2022

Dubai

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) to move 'green' data centers to oilfields in the Middle East

Earth Wind & Power (EWP) has announced that it has signed with services company Oilserv to place its "green" data centers in oil fields across the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates. The company utilizes excess energy from win...

November 16, 2022

Middle East

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

Bloomberg Reports That Ooredoo is Mulling Over Sale of Qatari Data Centers

Ooredoo QPSC is looking to sell off its data centers in Qatar. The move comes after the company sold off its data centers in Indonesia to BDx. According to Bloomberg, Ooredoo is already speaking with banks on how to offload the assets. Potential bidders have not been identified.The company cur...

October 14, 2022

Qatar

Widespread internet outages in Iran amid protests around the killing of Mahsa Amini

Amid mounting protests over the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Iranian government recently expanded its internet shutdown. Amini had been held in the custody of Tehran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code by wearing her headscarf too loosel...

September 28, 2022

Middle East

Khazna and BEEAH Group to build data center and explore alternative energy sources

Khazna Data Centers has formed a joint venture with BEEAH Digital, BEEAH Group’s digital transformation and future technology business, to build a data center in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and explore alternative sources of energy to power its operations. The joint venture, On...

September 13, 2022

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has announced plans to build three more data centers in Barka, Salalah, and Suhar. Each will be Tier 3 and have 500 racks capacity, the two former will provide landing points for the upcoming 2Africa cable. “Ooredoo has begun construction on three new state-of-the-...

August 11, 2022

Qatar

Berkshire Partners To Acquire 49% Stake in MedOne for $215 million

Berkshire Partners is moving to acquire a 49 percent stake in MedOne, an Israeli data center company. The US private investment company is leading a coalition of companies to make the acquisition possible. MedOne currently operates more than 270,000 square feet (25,000 square meters) of data c...

July 20, 2022

Israel

Transtelecom Develops Disaster Recovery Data Center for Sberbank in Kazakhstan

Transtelecom has announced that it developed a backup data center for Sberbank’s operations in Kazakhstan. Sberbank is a Russian bank, while Transtelecom is a Kazakhstani telecommunication company. The data center is located in Karaganda, to the northeast of Kazakhstan. The companies did not r...

June 17, 2022

Kazakhstan

Etisalat Opens New Data Center in Kalba, UAE

e& and Etisalat- its subsidiary have opened a cable landing station and data center in Kalba, UAE. e& which used to be called Etisalat Group, opened SmartHub Kalba earlier. According to Telco Etisalat, the new data center was developed to Tier III standards. The data center will also p...

June 03, 2022

Etisalat Kalba

GMT To Develop Crypto Mining Data Center in The UAE

GMT has announced its plans to develop a data center in the UAE. The Singapore-based crypto mining company revealed in a Medium post that it would be investing heavily in developing a data center in the region. According to GMT, there’s no exact location for the data center yet, but more in...

May 30, 2022

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

Bahrain region to launch region's first data center park

Bahrain recently announced its plans to establish the region's largest technology park, which will include the region's first data center to meet the needs of those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This vision will come into fruition through STC Bahrain partnering with the Mi...

April 05, 2022

Bahrain

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