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Khazna QAJ1

Ajman, United Arab Emirates · Northern Emirates market · location approximate to city level

Khazna QAJ1 is a data center project in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, operated by Khazna Data Centers. It is under construction. It is planned for 100 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
100 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Khazna Data Centers
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Corroborated

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

Named funderYes
Disclosed client (confirmed)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

Khazna describes a first 30MW AI deployment phase by Microsoft. Stated AI purpose plus a confirmed hyperscaler tenant on a 100MW greenfield. Liquid cooling stated by w.media on 2025-04-22. Adiabatic free cooling plus liquid cooling for GPU/CPU heat.

Access to AI chips

GradeGovernment-confirmed

A dated US government document names this project's operator, its parent, or a named funder as authorised to receive advanced computing items. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

Country-level export frameworkYes
A party named in a government authorisationYes
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectYes
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

G42 · Named in Supplement No. 8 to Part 740, licence-free under A:5 and License Exception STA. Earlier authorised 2025-11-19 for up to 35,000 Nvidia GB300 accelerators. (2026-07-14) Authorisation lapses 2027-04-06 source

Country Group A:5 with Supplement No. 8 approved end users · Country Group A:5 with Supplement No. 8 approved end users (2026-07-14) source

Stage history

2025-04-24Under construction · khaznadatacenters.com

Who is behind it

OperatorKhazna Data Centers · Colocation
Funder, EquityG42
Client, confirmedMicrosoft
Who builds it
Main contractorLaing O'Rourke · Oct 2024 Reported source ↗
Construction of 100MW, 20-hall Ajman data centre
ArchitectProarc Architects & Engineering Consultants Reported source ↗
Architect of record, Ajman 100MW data centre
Power supply
Grid supplyEtihad Water and Electricity (EtihadWE) · Oct 2024 Confirmed source ↗
Release says electricity will be primarily provided by EtihadWE. No capacity or substation stated.
Water and cooling
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling Reported source ↗
Adiabatic free cooling plus liquid cooling for GPU/CPU heat

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Khazna Awarded Tier III Certification of Design Documents for Ajman, UAE Facility (Khazna Data Centers, 2026-02-24)

Also run by Khazna

Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to [email protected]. Dataset updated 2026-09-26.