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Ezditek RUH01 data center

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

Ezditek RUH01 is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by Ezditek. It is under construction. It is planned for 24 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 19 November 2024.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
24 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Ezditek
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes4 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured○ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted○ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Power arranged.

Your call. Will it be built?

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

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: disclosed client (reported), three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

The operator markets to hyperscalers and cloud providers but names no AI tenant, workload or cooling specification.

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

2024-11-19Under construction · totaltele.com

Who is behind it

OperatorEzditek · Colocation

Who uses the compute

Runs compute here · GPU cloudGcore · reported, unconfirmed

Gcore-Ezditek JV AI factory, 'tens of thousands of GPUs' planned · as of 2024-11-19

Ezditek's own release says the JV 'AI factory will be deployed in an Ezditek data center and be home to tens of thousands of GPUs'. RUH01 at Princess Nourah University is Ezditek's only data center (ground broken the same day), so the location fits exactly one project. Held at reported because the tie to RUH01 is ours and no GPU count or go-live has been published since.

Source · Gcore and Ezditek Launch Joint Venture to Accelerate Building, Training, and Deploying AI Solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Ezditek, 2024-11-19)

Source · Ezditek Breaks Ground on Data Center Facility in Riyadh to Provide a Foundation for AI and Cloud Innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Ezditek, 2024-11-19)

Land
LandlordPrincess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University · 35,000 sqm · Nov 2024 Reported source ↗
Site on the PNU campus. Lease terms not disclosed; the relationship is inferred.

Sources

  1. Ezditek Breaks Ground on Data Center Facility in Riyadh to Provide a Foundation for AI and Cloud Innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Ezditek, 2024-11-19)
  2. Ezditek breaks ground on 24MW data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DCD, 2024-11-21)
  3. Ezditek breaks ground on data center facility in Riyadh to provide a foundation for AI and cloud innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Total Telecom, 2024-11-19)

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