United Arab Emirates (UAE) Data Center News

AWS UAE hit by AZ Outage after Objects Strike Data Center, Causing fire amid Iran Tensions

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 "c...

March 02, 2026

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

UAE-based Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Company Robo.ai is setting its sights on Data Center Development.

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 infrastruct...

February 07, 2026

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Sharjah Looks to Lure Data Centers to UAE city

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 a...

January 30, 2026

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Zoho Corp Launches Two Data Center Regions in 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 par...

January 15, 2026

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Core42 Signs Deal with Northern Data for Access to 10,000 GPUs

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 ...

August 15, 2025

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

Madari Space to Pilot Sending Data Centers into Space

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 ...

August 02, 2025

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

Du to unveil cloud and sovereign AI services for UAE

Du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC)-owned company is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company will focus its offering on Dubai and the Northern Emirates and wi...

June 13, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Batelco and e& to land Al Khaleej subsea cable in UAE

Telecoms firms Batelco and e& announced on February 14 that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to land the Al Khaleej subsea cable system in the UAE. This MoU will see the 1,400km-long cable connecting the UAE to Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. Nabil Baccouche, group chief carr...

February 16, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

SpaceX to de-orbit Starlink satellites that could potentially cause failures

SpaceX has revealed plans to de-orbit about 100 of its early Starlink satellites after finding a “common error” that could potentially cause failures. In a recent update on the company site, it revealed plans to perform controlled descents of the early-version 1 Starlink satellites in the comi...

February 14, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Yahsat and analytics provider Bayanat agree to an all-share merger

In a joint announcement earlier this week, Satellite operator Yahsat and analytics provider Bayanat revealed that they have agreed to an all-share merger. The combined entity will be worth 15 billion dirhams ($4.1 billion), with the new entity named Space42 with Bayanat being the legal entity ...

December 23, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

UAE & Egypt to collaborate on data center projects

The UAE's Ministry of Investment and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to invest in Egypt's digital infrastructure. This MoU could lead to the development of 1GW of data center capacity in Egypt, though timelines have n...

December 22, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

Nokia Reveals Plans to Build Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE

Finnish vendor Nokia has revealed plans to launch an Open Innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, to drive its Cloud RAN in the Middle East and Africa region. In a release, the vendor explained that the initiative will increase the regional focus of its established collaborations with Dell Technologies ...

September 27, 2023

Dubai

e& and Orange are contemplating bids for 45% of Ethio Telecom

Two operators are reportedly interested in acquiring a 45 percent stake in Ethio Telecom. e& of the United Arab Emirates and Orange of France are exploring opportunities surrounding state-owned Ethio, as per Bloomberg, which cited individuals with knowledge of the situation. The publicatio...

July 13, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

CtrlS Plans to Invest $18.1m on a Data Center in Odisha, India

CtrlS Datacenters will invest $18.1 million in a greenfield Edge data center in Odisha, India. On May 30, the corporation began work on the data center in the capital city of the state, Bhubaneswar. It is anticipated that approximately 110 jobs will be created in the city of Bhubaneswar as a r...

May 31, 2023

CtrlS Dubai

Pressure Sensitive Systems' Dubai arm announces launch of new data center

Pressure Sensitive Systems India, through its subsidiary Global Markets Insights IT Services LLC, has recently opened a new data center, Pressure 2.0 Cloud, in Dubai, UAE. The facility reportedly has a capacity of 20MW of IT capacity, spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 square meters) and wil...

May 08, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Etisalat Egypt to utilize Ericsson energy efficiency solution

Ericsson has announced that it has improved its remote management feature on Etisalat Egypt's network. According to the two companies, the addition of this new feature will enable Etisalat to better regulate its energy usage and bolster efficiency. Ericsson shared that the feature will help th...

April 27, 2023

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