Khazna AUH6 (with AUH8 extension) data center
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi market · location approximate to district level
Khazna AUH6 (with AUH8 extension) is a data center project in Masdar City, United Arab Emirates, operated by Khazna Data Centers. It is operational and expanding. It is planned for 32 MW of IT load. The operator reports 32 MW running.
Latest change on record: moved to expanding on 24 April 2025.
Operator
Khazna Data Centers
Colocation
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started
Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.
How United Arab Emirates approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in United Arab Emirates.
How well evidenced is it
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. On record: named funder, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.
AI workloads
StatusLikely
Marketed by the operator as a hyperscale AI-ready facility at launch.
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.
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
2022-04-23Under construction · g42.ai
Who is behind it
OperatorKhazna Data Centers · Colocation
Funder, EquityG42
Who uses the compute
Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.
Project team
Design and build contractorLaing O'Rourke · completed Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗ Design, construction and commissioning of 7.5MW IT Masdar City facility
Why we think so. Contractor page names a Khazna 7.5MW facility in Masdar City (MEED award Dec 2020); AUH6 is our only Khazna Masdar City project.
Power supply
On-site solarEmerge · 7 MW · Feb 2024 Reported source ↗ A 7MWp ground-mounted solar PV plant developed with Emerge supplies electricity for AUH6 operations. · Capacity is MWp.
Water and cooling
CoolingEvaporative cooling Reported source ↗ Adiabatic (evaporative) cooling. Khazna does not provide direct-to-chip cooling itself, but customers may add chip cooling in some cabinets up to 150kW. Cabinets average about 50 to 60kW.
Sources
- Khazna Data Centers fuels UAE's digital future with the launch of hyperscale AI-ready data center in Masdar City (Khazna Data Centers, 2024-02-01)
- Khazna breaks ground on two data centers in Abu Dhabi (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-04-24)
- Khazna secures $2.6bn for UAE data centre projects (MEED, 2025-09-03)
- Khazna Data Centre AUH8 30MW (James L. Williams ME)
- Khazna launches AI-ready Data Center in Masdar City (W.Media, 2024-02-07)
- Khazna: The Emirati data center operator that doesn't use diesel (DatacenterDynamics, 2024-07-09)
- Khazna data centres (Laing O'Rourke)
- Emerge signs agreement to develop solar plant to power Khazna data centre in Masdar City (Gulf Business, 2022-10-19)
- Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on Masdar data center (G42, 2022-04-23)
- Khazna - 30 MW AUH8 Data Centre (OGN (Oil & Gas News), 2026-05-01)
- Khazna to build 30MW data center in Abu Dhabi, UAE (DatacenterDynamics, 2024-05-31)
- Turner & Townsend completes Khazna Data Centers expansion (Middle East Construction News, 2020-01-07)
- Abu Dhabi data-centre expansion accelerates as 100% carbon-free cooling power set as 2035 goal (Gulf News, 2026-10-14)
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Project team on other projects: Laing O'Rourke