Microsoft Azure Qatar Central Region is a data center project in Doha, Qatar, operated by Microsoft. 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 31 August 2022. Record last checked against its sources on 14 October 2026.
This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.
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How Qatar approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Qatar.
Doha holds 4 active projects with 62 MW of planned IT load between them, and Microsoft Azure Qatar Central 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.
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). It sits on the Azure Qatar datacenter region campus. The named user of the compute is Microsoft Azure (confirmed).
The stage was recorded as operational on 31 August 2022.
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 2 public sources for this project, the latest dated 3 April 2023, and last checked the record on 14 October 2026.
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
No public signal either way.
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.
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
as of 2022-08-31
launch announcement
Source · Microsoft opens first global datacenter region in Qatar, bringing new opportunities for a cloud-first economy (Microsoft News Centre, 2022-08-31)
An own-use build. No colocation price applies.
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