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SDAIA Salboukh data centre

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

SDAIA Salboukh data centre is a data center project in Salboukh, Saudi Arabia, operated by SDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority). It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 20 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
20 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
SDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority)
Local developer
AI workloads
No signal either way
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.

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

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

No public signal either way.

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

2025-07-08Land and permitting · guest.meed.com

Who is behind it

OperatorSDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority) · Local developer
Funder, EquityGovernment of Saudi Arabia
Client, confirmedGovernment of Saudi Arabia
Who builds it
Main contractorAlBawani · Jul 2025 Reported source ↗
Construction of the 20MW IT load Salboukh data centre. MEED puts the contract at US$140m to 150m.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Saudi Arabia tenders Salboukh data centre contract (MEED, 2024-09-26)
  2. Saudi authority awards Salboukh data centre contract (MEED, 2025-07-08)

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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.