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Khazna Dammam campus

Dammam, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia · Dammam / Eastern Province market · location approximate to city level

Khazna Dammam campus is a data center project in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, operated by Khazna Data Centers. It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 200 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 10 December 2025.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
200 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Khazna Data Centers
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
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: Power arranged.

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.

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

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: named funder, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Khazna describes the campus as AI-ready and built for GPU clusters. No tenant or cooling spec disclosed.

Access to AI chips

GradeGovernment-confirmed

A dated US government document names this project's operator, its parent, or a named funder as authorised to receive advanced computing items. Criteria.

G42 · Named in Supplement No. 8 to Part 740, licence-free under A:5 and License Exception STA. Earlier authorised 2025-11-19 for up to 35,000 Nvidia GB300 accelerators. (2026-07-14) Authorisation lapses 2027-04-06 source

Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source

Stage history

2025-12-10Land and permitting · guest.meed.com

Who is behind it

OperatorKhazna Data Centers · Colocation
Funder, EquityG42

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Land
Site225,000 sqm · Dec 2025 Reported source ↗
Khazna bought the plot. Seller, price and tenure were not disclosed.
Site225,000 sqm · Dec 2025 Reported source ↗

Sources

  1. UAE's Khazna acquires land for 200MW Dammam data centre (MEED, 2025-12-10)
  2. Khazna enters Saudi Arabia, buys land in Dammam for 200MW data center campus (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-12-16)
  3. Saudi Arabia Digital Infrastructure Boosted by Khazna's Entry and Leadership Appointment (TechAfrica News, 2025-12-09)

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