du Dubai hyperscale data centre is a data center project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, operated by du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications). It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 1 August 2025.
Next gate to watch: Land secured.
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One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. On record: disclosed client (reported), dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.
Built for a hyperscaler tenant on a greenfield site. Microsoft is described as the main tenant in press coverage but not confirmed from Microsoft's own side.
The country has a country-level export framework and this project has a US approved operator or confirmed client. That is a structural reason for compliance, not a licence held by the operator. Criteria.
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
Main tenant; capacity delivered to Microsoft in tranches; US$544.54m build · as of 2025-04-23
DCD reports the du announcement at Dubai AI Week, saying 'Microsoft will be the main tenant of the data center', US$544.54m, capacity delivered in tranches. du is DFM-listed and the underlying disclosure would make this confirmed; du.ae is robots-blocked and the DFM filing was not reached.
Source · Microsoft and Du to develop $544m data center in the UAE (DCD, 2025-04-23)
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