Khazna Data Centers, a renowned provider of hyperscale digital infrastructure across the Gulf, has announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA to build AI factories in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. This partnership is significant because it brings together eminent technology companies from the US and the UAE. Moreover, this development comes close at the heels of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the UAE, and the announcement of a planned 5GW UAE-US AI campus.
In a press release, Khazna revealed that through this collaboration, NVIDIA has certified the design of Khazna’s next-generation facilities to support the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Khazna’s ongoing and upcoming infrastructure developments will feature NVIDIA-ready blueprints as standard, ensuring full compatibility with the latest GPU-accelerated workloads.
Khazna will design the majority of its future data halls with capacities of up to 50MW, developing individual AI clusters of up to 250MW. Many of these data halls situated in the planned UAE-US AI campus.
“The world is entering a new era of AI-driven innovation, and the UAE is uniquely positioned to lead. Our work with NVIDIA represents a bold step forward in delivering high-performance, future-ready infrastructure at unprecedented scale. It reinforces our support for the UAE’s ambitions to become a global AI leader,” said Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna Data Centers.
Khazna is also expanding rapidly across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, with plans to scale up to 1GW of capacity in countries such as France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, and Kenya.
Readers would recall that in March this year, Khazna, which is majority owned by the Middle Eastern technology conglomerate G42, welcomed MGX and Silver Lake as minority investors, even as telecom major Etisalat (e&) exited. Since then, it has broken ground on two new facilities – AUH4 in Mafraq and AUH8 in Masdar City – both in Abu Dhabi, that will provide a combined 60MW of capacity. They are due for completion in December 2026 and August 2026 respectively. It is also planning to build an AI-ready data center with a potential capacity of up to 100MW in Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye).
