center3 Riyadh (Khurais) is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by center3. 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 6 July 2023. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
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 Saudi Arabia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh holds 14 active projects with 1,216 MW of planned IT load between them, and center3 Riyadh (Khurais) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 5 are under construction, 3 are at the land and permitting stage and 4 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Riyadh, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
stc has 1 other in Saudi Arabia tracked by ArusGrid, including center3 Dammam. Named funding comes from stc Group on the equity side. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.
The stage was recorded as operational and expanding on 6 July 2023.
The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Saudi Arabia, as of 19 November 2025, is recorded as “Case-by-case authorisation only”. ArusGrid holds 1 public source for this project, the latest dated 6 July 2023, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Carrier-neutral colocation with no AI tenant, workload or cooling disclosure.
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.
Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.
No published price band exists for Saudi Arabia, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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