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Google Cloud Doha Region data center

Doha, Qatar · Doha market · location approximate to city level

Google Cloud Doha Region is a data center project in Doha, Qatar, operated by Google. It is operational. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 3 April 2023. Record last checked against its sources on 14 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Google
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
none_disclosed
Evidence grade
Verified
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.

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.

How Qatar approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Qatar.

Where it sits

Doha holds 4 active projects with 62 MW of planned IT load between them, and Google Cloud Doha Region has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 2 are operational, 1 is operational and expanding and 1 is past financial close. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Doha, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

It is the only Alphabet project ArusGrid tracks. It sits on the Google Cloud Doha region (3 zones) campus. The named user of the compute is Google Cloud (confirmed).

The stage was recorded as operational on 3 April 2023.

The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Qatar, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:4), no named authorisation found”. ArusGrid holds 1 public source for this project, the latest dated 3 April 2023, and last checked the record on 14 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. 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 monthsNo

AI workloads

Status

No public signal either way.

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

2023-04-03Operational · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorGoogle · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Own use · hyperscalerGoogle Cloud · confirmed

as of 2023-04-03

launch announcement

Source · Google launches cloud region in Doha, Qatar (DatacenterDynamics, 2023-04-03)

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 2026-10-14

  1. Google launches cloud region in Doha, Qatar (DatacenterDynamics, 2023-04-03)

More in Doha

All projects in Doha · All projects in Qatar · All projects operational · Data center rules in Qatar · Full directory

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.