Khazna leads UAE’s world AI push with huge datacentre growth

Khazna Information Facilities has revealed it would add over 1GW of hyperscale capability by 2030 throughout a number of international locations. The internet hosting firm’s roadmap consists of greater than 400MW of latest capability in worldwide markets reminiscent of Saudi Arabia and Italy, alongside main home developments in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Ajman.

The announcement, on the Gitex International 2025 convention in Dubai, underscores Khazna’s position because the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) nationwide digital infrastructure champion and a key enabler of AI-native nations.

“Our mission is to ship resilient, sustainable, and sovereign-ready AI infrastructure,” mentioned Tinboat Arslanouk, chief enterprise officer – worldwide. “We aren’t simply constructing datacentres, we’re offering the inspiration for world innovation and nationwide transformation.”

Khazna’s growth comes at a time when AI adoption is accelerating throughout the UAE.

“The area’s progress in AI, and particularly within the UAE, comes from the management’s dedication to leapfrogging into the longer term and constructing intelligence domestically to gas financial growth,” mentioned Arslanouk.

“As an infrastructure supplier, we’re a part of the ecosystem that offers AI a house. We host the servers, the neural networks, and the methods that generate the insights used throughout enterprise and private life.”

The corporate’s worldwide push displays the rising demand for hyperscale datacentres able to supporting AI workloads.

“We began building in Saudi Arabia and are actively engaged on tasks in France and Italy, whereas additionally exploring alternatives in Turkey and Southeast Asia,” Arslanouk mentioned.

“We take a macro view in the marketplace to resolve the place to enter. AI accelerates demand dramatically and what a rustic beforehand wanted when it comes to information capability could now be multiplied a number of instances over.”

Sustainability is central to Khazna’s technique, significantly as datacentres are vitality intensive.

“We sort out sustainability on a number of layers,” Arslanouk mentioned. “A considerable portion of our energy comes from nuclear crops, with extra capability from photovoltaic and CSP photo voltaic tasks. Over 40% of the UAE’s electrical energy combine is already carbon-free, and that may proceed to develop. Even our fossil gas technology comes primarily from pure fuel, the cleanest of the fossil fuels.”

Vitality availability, native rules, and infrastructure readiness are all important components in Khazna’s growth choices. “Even when a market is promising, limitations on vitality or native rules can stop us from pursuing a challenge,” he added. “We have to calibrate these components rigorously to make sure our technique works long-term.”

Khazna’s datacentres are designed for AI workloads, enabling CIOs and enterprises to deploy hybrid cloud environments whereas sustaining information sovereignty.

“Our proposition is to come back to the nation and construct infrastructure domestically. This ensures sovereignty and safety, giving CIOs confidence that delicate information stays protected,” he mentioned.

The corporate’s growth aligns with the UAE’s broader AI imaginative and prescient, which incorporates appointing the world’s first minister of synthetic intelligence and chief AI officers throughout ministries. In accordance with Arslanouk, “The UAE’s ambition on AI is phenomenal. Boardrooms world wide now look to the UAE to be used circumstances and classes on integrating AI into operational workflows.”

By way of partnerships with world expertise suppliers, together with Microsoft, Khazna is supporting the federal government in growing AI use circumstances, coaching expertise, and guaranteeing that AI deployments are safe and compliant.

“We’re constructing infrastructure that permits each world innovation and nationwide transformation. Our work ensures that the UAE stays a frontrunner in AI whereas exporting use circumstances and experience to the world.”

The corporate’s flagship challenge, the Stargate initiative, exemplifies this strategy: “We started the Stargate challenge after the US President’s go to to the UAE, and we hope to ship the primary section subsequent summer time,” Arslanouk mentioned.

“Our final aim is to succeed in 5 gigawatts of AI capability, not simply within the UAE however throughout the markets we enter.”