At a glance
- The Khazaen Data Campus will sit on a 592,000 sq ft (55,000 sqm) site in Khazaen Economic City and will target enterprise colocation, high-density computing, AI and high-performance computing workloads.
- For allocators underwriting Gulf compute, the key diligence items are power allocation per phase and the lease commitments behind the first phase.
- The developer is targeting international customers in Europe, North America and India as it builds digital infrastructure capability in Oman and the wider Gulf.
Khazaen Data Center plans a 45MW carrier-neutral AI campus in Barka, northern Oman, with first operations targeted for the second quarter of 2028, Data Center Dynamics reported on Nov. 2.
The Khazaen Data Campus will sit on a 592,000 sq ft (55,000 sqm) site in Khazaen Economic City and will target enterprise colocation, high-density computing, AI and high-performance computing workloads. It has design capacity of 45MW and can accommodate up to 100MW longer term.
For allocators underwriting Gulf compute, the key diligence items are power allocation per phase and the lease commitments behind the first phase. Project cost and any anchor tenant were not disclosed.
The developer is targeting international customers in Europe, North America and India as it builds digital infrastructure capability in Oman and the wider Gulf. The project is being developed in eight phases and is currently in design and approvals.
Oman is pursuing digital infrastructure under Vision 2040 to diversify away from oil. Data Center Map lists 15 data centers in the country, including two Equinix sites in Muscat and Salalah. Earlier this year, five companies from Oman, the UAE and Italy agreed to develop a 150MW hyperscale AI data center.
Reported by the Data centers & fiber desk from Data Center Dynamics. Published . Corrections