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Gulf Data Hub Dubai Silicon Oasis campus

Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Dubai market · location approximate to district level

Gulf Data Hub Dubai Silicon Oasis campus is a data center project in Dubai Silicon Oasis, United Arab Emirates, operated by Gulf Data Hub. It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as expanding on 14 January 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Gulf Data Hub
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Verified
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.

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.

Where it sits

Dubai holds 6 active projects with 129 MW of planned IT load between them, and Gulf Data Hub Dubai Silicon Oasis campus 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.

Gulf Data Hub has 1 other in the United Arab Emirates tracked by ArusGrid, including Gulf Data Hub Abu Dhabi (ICAD). Named funding comes from KKR on the equity side. The named user of the compute is Etisalat (e&) (confirmed).

The stage was recorded as operational and expanding on 14 January 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 2 public sources for this project, the latest dated 14 January 2025, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. 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

Multi-tenant colocation. No AI tenant, workload or cooling disclosure.

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.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedYes
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkYes
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

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

Stage history

2025-01-14Expanding · capacitymedia.com

Who is behind it

OperatorGulf Data Hub · Colocation
Funder, EquityKKR

Who uses the compute

Tenant · telcoEtisalat (e&) · confirmed

Exclusive 15-year wholesale lease of full capacity of the two DSO buildings (3,000 sqm data space each) · as of 2018-11-01

Gulf News reports Etisalat signed an exclusive 15-year wholesale lease with Gulf Data Hub for the full capacity of its Tier III data centre at Dubai Silicon Oasis

Source · Etisalat signs 15-year lease pact with Gulf Data Hub (Gulf News, 2018-11-01)

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

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.

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 2026-10-19

  1. Data Centre of the Month: Dubai Silicon Oasis (Capacity Media, 2025-01-14)
  2. Etisalat signs 15-year lease pact with Gulf Data Hub (Gulf News, 2018-11-01)

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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 corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.