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Read Blue Owl Partners with QIA for New Data Center Platform
Blue Owl Partners with QIA for New Data Center Platform

Blue Owl Partners with QIA for New Data Center Platform

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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Read Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion
Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

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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Read Ooredoo Group names Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub
Ooredoo Group names Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub

Ooredoo Group names Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub

June 05, 2024 Qatar

Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has named Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub, its newly established carrier-neutral data center branch, set up to provide colocation services to hyperscalers in the Middle East region.“Sunita’s appointment marks an exciting milestone in our journey to...

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

October 14, 2022 Qatar

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...

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Read Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman
Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

Ooredoo announces ground breaking of three data centers in Oman

August 11, 2022 Qatar

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-art...

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Read Qatar's sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in data centers and warehouses
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Qatar's sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in data centers and warehouses

June 26, 2021 Qatar

The Qatar Investment Authority wants to start investing in data centers and warehouses. This is because the real estate sector is struggling because of the covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive of the sovereign wealth fund, Mansoor bin Ebrahim al Mahmoud, told an economic forum organized by...

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Read MEEZA Unveils Middle East’s First LEED Platinum and Tier III Certified Data Centre
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MEEZA Unveils Middle East’s First LEED Platinum and Tier III Certified Data Centre

November 13, 2014 Meeza M-Vault 2

DOHA, Qatar--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEEZA, the leading IT services and solutions provider in Qatar, announced that its latest and biggest data centre to date, M-VAULT 2, with a total building area of 10,000 m2 is now fully operational and offering access to MEEZA’s full portfolio of services. Built in...

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