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DAMAC Digital RUH-1 (Riyadh Industrial City 2)

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

DAMAC Digital RUH-1 (Riyadh Industrial City 2) is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX). It is operational. It is planned for 20 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
20 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX)
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Verified

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
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

The operator markets AI-optimised infrastructure at company level but discloses no tenant, workload or cooling specification for this site.

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 are published on the Methodology page.

Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

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

Stage history

2022-03-29Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com
2026-06-04Operational · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorDAMAC Digital (EDGNEX) · Colocation
Funder, EquityDAMAC Group

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Land
Industrial estateMODON (Riyadh Second Industrial City) · 17,720 sqm · Mar 2022 Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗
Why we think so. Source places the 17,720 sqm plot in Riyadh Industrial City 2, which is a MODON estate. MODON is not named.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Edgnex breaks ground in Riyadh, picks JLL to manage facilities (DatacenterDynamics, 2022-03-29)
  2. Damac Digital plans 6GW data center expansion across four continents (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-06-04)
  3. Edgnex rebrands to Damac Data Centres (DatacenterDynamics, 2023-02-13)

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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 [email protected]. Dataset updated 2026-09-26.