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Microsoft Azure Kuwait region data center

Kuwait (sites undisclosed), Kuwait · Kuwait market · location approximate to city level

Microsoft Azure Kuwait region is a data center project in Kuwait (sites undisclosed), Kuwait, operated by Microsoft. 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 6 March 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 13 October 2026.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Microsoft
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Thin
Will it get built?Open question2 of 7 gates passed
○ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Land secured.

Your call. Will it be built?

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.

Where it sits

Kuwait holds 2 active projects with 0 MW of planned IT load between them, and Microsoft Azure Kuwait region has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is at the land and permitting stage and 1 is announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Kuwait, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Microsoft has 13 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Microsoft JKT09 / JKT02 (KIIC Karawang campus), Microsoft Indonesia Central data center (Jawa Barat) and Microsoft Hyderabad Chandanvelly campus (HYD11). No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as announced only on 6 March 2025.

The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Kuwait, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found”. ArusGrid holds 2 public sources for this project, the latest dated 7 March 2025, and last checked the record on 13 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

The announcement stands alone, or the project is on hold. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Announced with the Kuwait government as an AI-powered Azure region. No source describes GPU deployment at a named site.

Access to AI chips

GradeCommercial signal only

A chip-vendor partnership or US hyperscaler relationship has been announced, but no government document names anyone involved. Signal, not licence. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedYes
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectYes
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found · Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found (2026-09-27) source

Stage history

2025-03-06Announced · w.media

Who is behind it

OperatorMicrosoft · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Built for Microsoft's own use. No customer workload has been tied to this building on the public record.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

An own-use build. No colocation price applies.

Build, land, power and water
Nothing found in public sources yet. Most contractors and utilities never name their data centre clients. Know who built it or where its power comes from? Tell us.

Sources checked 2026-10-13

  1. Microsoft announces AI powered Azure Region for Kuwait (W.Media, 2025-03-06)
  2. Microsoft to develop Azure cloud region in Kuwait (DCD, 2025-03-07)

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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 corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.