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United Arab Emirates AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for United Arab Emirates using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

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G42 “Stargate” UAE–US AI Campus (Abu Dhabi)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2026
Under Construction5.0 GW

The UAE-US AI Campus is a 5 GW Abu Dhabi AI infrastructure campus led by G42 with U.S. technology partners. G42's May 2025 announcement says a new 5 GW UAE-US AI Campus was unveiled as the largest AI infrastructure project outside the U.S.

OpenAI / G42 Stargate UAE Cluster
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2026
Under Construction

Stargate UAE is the OpenAI/G42/Oracle AI infrastructure cluster inside the larger UAE-US AI Campus in Abu Dhabi. OpenAI says the partnership includes a 1 GW Stargate UAE cluster, with 200 MW expected to go live in 2026. G42 likewise describ

Khazna Ajman AI Data Center (UAE)
Ajman, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
2025
Under Construction100 MW

Khazna Data Centers is developing the UAE's first purpose-built AI campus in Ajman, delivering 100 megawatts of modular capacity across twenty 5 MW halls. Announced at GITEX 2024 and slated to open by the third quarter of 2025, the facility

Stargate UAE Abu Dhabi AI Cluster Reference
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2025
Under Construction

Stargate UAE is a 1 GW AI compute cluster in Abu Dhabi inside the larger 5 GW UAE-US AI Campus. OpenAI says the cluster is the first international deployment of its Stargate AI infrastructure platform and that 200 MW is expected to go live

AI71 — Abu Dhabi AI Enterprise Cloud
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2024
Operational50 MW

AI71 is an Abu Dhabi-based AI company that commercializes the Falcon family of models (developed by TII) for enterprise deployments. The company provides an API platform for Falcon models and customized AI solutions for governments, banks,

Technology Innovation Institute — Falcon AI Compute (UAE)
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2022
Operational30 MW

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi's advanced scientific research center, developed the Falcon series of large language models — which became the most downloaded open-source AI models in the world in 2023. The Falcon 40B a

Microsoft Azure — UAE North (Dubai)
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2019
Operational200 MW

Microsoft Azure launched its UAE North region in Dubai in October 2019, making it the first global cloud provider to offer a dedicated UAE cloud region. The region pairs with Azure UAE Central in Abu Dhabi (operated in partnership with G42)

Khazna QAJ1 — Ajman AI Data Center
Ajman, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Under Construction100 MW

Khazna QAJ1 is a 100 MW AI-optimized data center under construction in Ajman and positioned by Khazna as the first purpose-built AI data center in the UAE and wider region. Khazna's October 2024 launch announcement described a 100,000-squar