Also listed as Desert Dragon Jeddah.
ICS Arabia Desert Dragon (Jeddah phase) is a data center project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, operated by ICS Arabia (with Lumaotong Group and China Mobile International). It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The published capacity figure is 50 MW, and its basis is not stated as IT load.
Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 20 September 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Power arranged.
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.
ICS Arabia Desert Dragon (Jeddah phase) is the only active project ArusGrid tracks in Jeddah / Western, at 50 MW of planned IT load. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Jeddah / Western, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
ICS Arabia has 1 other in Saudi Arabia tracked by ArusGrid, including ICS Arabia Desert Dragon (Riyadh phase). It sits on the ICS Arabia Desert Dragon campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The stage was recorded as announced only on 20 September 2024. Cooling uses immersion cooling.
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 3 public sources for this project, the latest dated 14 July 2025, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
No public signal either way.
A party to this project (its operator, that operator's group, a funder, or a confirmed client) is headquartered in China or Macau or has an ultimate parent there. US rules require a licence for advanced AI chips destined to such entities wherever they are located. This describes the rule and says nothing about whether a licence was sought, granted or refused. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.
Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.
No published price band exists for Saudi Arabia, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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