Agility Logistics Parks, a leading developer of industrial and logistics real estate in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, today announced the launch of tailored, master-planned data center campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana, with more to come.
The sites are being readied at ALP warehousing complexes in fast-growing markets and mega-cities that are looking to add hyperscale data center capacity and resolve data latency, security and compliance challenges to speed their growth and improve competitiveness.
ALP announced its plans for data center sites at the Capacity Middle East 2023 conference in Dubai. According to the company, it has readied data center campuses in its existing parks with power allocation, fiber connectivity, building permits, strong sustainability features and high security.
The first set of campuses is in ALP parks in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Kuwait, Cairo (Egypt) and Accra-Tema (Ghana). ALP expects to add sites in other rapidly growing data center markets, including Nairobi, Casablanca, Lagos and more.
In Kuwait, the company’s site offers an existing substation with 80 MW capacity, and the property is allocated for two 46,000 SQM data center plots with capacity for expansion. In addition to conventional power, the Kuwait site offers 15+ MW of solar capacity.
Some tech companies have also announced their intention to add data center capacity in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia earlier this year.
Digital Edge, a Singapore-based data center platform company, is in advanced talks to buy a 47-acre land parcel in Thane in order to build its first data center in India.
CtrlS Datacenters Limited, Asia’s Largest Rated-4 Datacenter provider, is aggressively looking into opportunities in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bangladesh, to assist its key technology customers in scaling up with ease and generating synergies and efficiencies.
Raxio Group, a Pan-African data center developer and operator, is investing and establishing ‘Raxio Angola’, the latest facility to be part of Raxio’s fast expanding network of interconnected carrier neutral, Tier III data centers across the African continent.
Moro Hub and its key technology partners and customers including Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Huawei, VMWare, Emirates NBD, Digital Dubai Authority, and Dubai Islamic Bank have also launched the world’s largest solar-powered data center in UAE.
Recently, Huawei has also set to invest over $300 million in Africa’s data centers and cyber security industries.
