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ICS Arabia Desert Dragon (Riyadh phase)

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

ICS Arabia Desert Dragon (Riyadh phase) is a data center project in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia, operated by ICS Arabia. It is under construction. It is planned for 65 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
65 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
ICS Arabia
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

Named funderYes
Disclosed client (reported)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

A reported 15-year lease for 10MW of AI workload capacity. Stated AI positioning by the operator.

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

2024-11-01Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorICS Arabia · Colocation
Funder, Joint venture partnerLumaotong Group
Funder, Joint venture partnerChina Mobile International
Client, reported, unconfirmedXDS Datacentres
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 checked 2026-09-26

  1. ICS Arabia breaks ground on 187MW Desert Dragon project (DatacenterDynamics, 2024-09-15)
  2. Desert Dragon Data Centers (ICS Arabia)

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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.