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Khazna AUH6 (with AUH8 extension)

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 62 MW of IT load. The operator reports 32 MW running.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
62 MW
Running now
32 MW
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Khazna Data Centers
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Verified

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseYes
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

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 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 projectNo
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

Phases

AUH8 extension · Under construction30 MW, target 2026

Stage history

2024-02-01Operational · khazna.ae
2025-04-24Expanding · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorKhazna Data Centers · Colocation
Funder, EquityG42

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Who builds it
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.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. 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)
  2. Khazna breaks ground on two data centers in Abu Dhabi (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-04-24)
  3. Khazna secures $2.6bn for UAE data centre projects (MEED, 2025-09-03)
  4. Khazna Data Centre AUH8 30MW (James L. Williams ME)

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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.