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Microsoft Azure Saudi Arabia region (Eastern Province) data center

Eastern Province (sites undisclosed), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia · Dammam / Eastern Province market · location approximate to city level

Also listed as Microsoft Saudi Arabia datacenter region.

Microsoft Azure Saudi Arabia region (Eastern Province) is a data center project in Eastern Province (sites undisclosed), Saudi Arabia, operated by Microsoft. It is being commissioned. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as commissioning on 13 December 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Commissioning
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Microsoft
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Corroborated
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 Saudi Arabia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Saudi Arabia.

Where it sits

Dammam / Eastern Province holds 8 active projects with 370 MW of planned IT load between them, and Microsoft Azure Saudi Arabia region (Eastern Province) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 4 are operational, 2 are under construction, 1 is being commissioned and 1 is at the land and permitting stage. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Dammam / Eastern Province, 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 being commissioned on 13 December 2024.

The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Saudi Arabia, as of 19 November 2025, is recorded as “Case-by-case authorisation only”. ArusGrid holds 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 24 September 2026, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

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

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

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

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

Stage history

2024-12-13Commissioning · datacenterdynamics.com

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 2026-10-19

  1. Microsoft completes construction of Saudi Arabia data center region (DCD, 2024-12-13)
  2. Microsoft to invest $10bn into Gulf states by 2030 (DCD, 2026-09-24)
  3. Microsoft’s Saudi Arabia East data center region to be available in November 2026 (W.Media, 2026-09-03)
  4. Microsoft Confirms Saudi Arabia Datacenter Region Available for Customers to Run Cloud Workloads from Q4 2026 (Microsoft, 2026-02-10)

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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.