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DAMAC Digital RUH-1 (Riyadh Industrial City 2) data center

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.

Latest change on record: moved to operational on 4 June 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
20 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX)
Colocation
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, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

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.

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

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
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

  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)
  4. EDGNEX breaks ground on new 20MW data centre in Riyadh (Middle East Construction News, 2022-03-30)
  5. DAMAC Data Centres' KSA facilities to go live before end of 2023 (Middle East Construction News, 2023-02-09)

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