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center3 Riyadh (Khurais) data center

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Riyadh market · location approximate to city level

center3 Riyadh (Khurais) is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by center3. It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as expanding on 6 July 2023.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
center3
Telco
AI workloads
No signal either way
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

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

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. On record: named funder. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

Carrier-neutral colocation with no AI tenant, workload or cooling disclosure.

Access to AI chips

GradeNo public signal

Nothing found in the public record. This describes the record, not the company, and it is not evidence that access was sought or denied. Criteria.

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

Stage history

2023-07-06Expanding · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

Operatorcenter3 · Telco
Funder, Equitystc Group

Who uses the compute

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.

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

  1. STC's Center3 expands Riyadh data center in Saudi Arabia (DatacenterDynamics, 2023-07-06)

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