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du Dubai hyperscale data centre

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Dubai market · location approximate to city level

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.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications)
Telco
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Sourced

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

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

AI workloads

StatusLikely

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.

Access to AI chips

GradeFramework-covered

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 are published on the Methodology page.

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

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

2025-08-01Announced · turnerandtownsend.com

Who is behind it

Operatordu (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications) · Telco
Client, reported, unconfirmedMicrosoft
Who builds it
Project managerTurner & Townsend · Aug 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Project and cost management, 20,000 sqm greenfield

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Turner & Townsend appointed to deliver du's first hyperscale data centre in the United Arab Emirates (Turner & Townsend, 2025-08-01)

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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.