Khazna AUH8 Masdar City is a data center project in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, operated by Khazna Data Centers. It is under construction. It is planned for 30 MW of IT load.
Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 23 April 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
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How United Arab Emirates approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in United Arab Emirates.
Abu Dhabi holds 7 active projects with 434 MW of planned IT load between them, and Khazna AUH8 Masdar City ranks 7th by planned capacity. Of those, 3 are operational and expanding and 4 are under construction. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Abu Dhabi, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Khazna has 6 others in the United Arab Emirates and 1 project elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Stargate UAE phase 1, Khazna Dubai Production City and Khazna QAJ1. It sits on the Masdar City campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The stage was recorded as under construction on 23 April 2025. Cooling uses evaporative cooling.
The US export control position for advanced AI chips in the United Arab Emirates, as of 14 July 2026, is recorded as “Country Group A:5 with Supplement No. 8 approved end users”. ArusGrid holds 5 public sources for this project, the latest dated 1 May 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
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.
Khazna describes AUH4 and AUH8 as AI-ready facilities (TechAfrica News 2025-04-23).
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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
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.
No published price band exists for United Arab Emirates, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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