du Dubai hyperscale data centre is a data center project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, operated by du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications). It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 1 August 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Land secured.
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 United Arab Emirates approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in United Arab Emirates.
Dubai holds 6 active projects with 129 MW of planned IT load between them, and du Dubai hyperscale data centre has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 1 is under construction and 3 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Dubai, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
It is the only du project ArusGrid tracks. The named user of the compute is Microsoft (reported, unconfirmed).
The stage was recorded as announced only on 1 August 2025.
The US export control position for advanced AI chips in the United Arab Emirates, as of 14 July 2026, is recorded as “Country Group A:5 with Supplement No. 8 approved end users”. ArusGrid holds 1 public source for this project, the latest dated 1 August 2025, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Built for a hyperscaler tenant on a greenfield site. Microsoft is described as the main tenant in press coverage but not confirmed from Microsoft's own side.
The country has a country-level export framework and this project has a US approved operator or confirmed client. That is a structural reason for compliance, not a licence held by the operator. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.
Country Group A:5 with Supplement No. 8 approved end users · Country Group A:5 with Supplement No. 8 approved end users (2026-07-14) source
Main tenant; capacity delivered to Microsoft in tranches; US$544.54m build · as of 2025-04-23
DCD reports the du announcement at Dubai AI Week, saying 'Microsoft will be the main tenant of the data center', US$544.54m, capacity delivered in tranches. du is DFM-listed and the underlying disclosure would make this confirmed; du.ae is robots-blocked and the DFM filing was not reached.
Source · Microsoft and Du to develop $544m data center in the UAE (DCD, 2025-04-23)
No published price band exists for United Arab Emirates, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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