Damac to Open Data Centres in Riyadh and Dammam in 2023

Damac Data Centres, a Digital infrastructure provider owned by the Damac Group, will open facilities in Riyadh and Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), before the end of 2023. Damac is expanding the data centres from 20 MW to 55 MW. Damac announced the addition of 35 megawatts of IT capacity at LEAP 2023, bringing the total IT capacity under construction to 55 megawatts, with the initial 20 megawatts already underway.

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Part of the USD 1 billion Data Center development strategy

Damac group is to invest USD 600 million in expanding its data centres in Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The company, formerly known as Edgnex, stated that this expansion is part of a USD 1 billion data center development strategy across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Initially, each facility will launch with 5 megawatts of IT capacity in the last quarter of 2023. Then, another 5 megawatts will be added in Q1 2024. By 2025, both facilities will deliver a total of 55 megawatts of IT capacity.

Hussain Sajwani, chairman of the group, said, “Saudi Arabia’s borders touch more countries than almost any other, and it is an ideal jumping-off point for connecting across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.”

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Riyadh data center

The company has announced the 20 MW data center in Riyadh in 2022. The business then announced that the unit would go operational in the third quarter of this year. Now, the company says that the expansion will start its operation in 2023.  Dammam is on Saudi Arabia’s east coast, close to Bahrain, and Riyadh is inland.