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DAMAC Digital RUH-1 (Riyadh Industrial City 2) data center

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Riyadh market · location approximate to district level

DAMAC Digital RUH-1 (Riyadh Industrial City 2) is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX). It is operational. It is planned for 20 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: moved to operational on 4 June 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
20 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX)
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 Saudi Arabia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Saudi Arabia.

Where it sits

Riyadh holds 14 active projects with 1,216 MW of planned IT load between them, and DAMAC Digital RUH-1 (Riyadh Industrial City 2) ranks 11th by planned capacity. 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.

DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX) has 1 other in Saudi Arabia and 5 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including DAMAC Digital DMM-1 (Dammam). Named funding comes from DAMAC Group on the equity side. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-01, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

The dated record runs from under construction on 29 March 2022 to operational on 4 June 2026.

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 6 public sources for this project, the latest dated 4 June 2026, and last checked the record on 21 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 clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

The operator markets AI-optimised infrastructure at company level but discloses no tenant, workload or cooling specification for this site.

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 frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source

Stage history

2022-03-29Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com
2026-06-04Operational · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorDAMAC Digital (EDGNEX) · Colocation
Funder, EquityDAMAC Group

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

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.

Land
Industrial estateMODON (Riyadh Second Industrial City) · 17,720 sqm · Mar 2022 Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗
Why we think so. Source places the 17,720 sqm plot in Riyadh Industrial City 2, which is a MODON estate. MODON is not named.

Sources checked 2026-10-21

  1. Edgnex breaks ground in Riyadh, picks JLL to manage facilities (DatacenterDynamics, 2022-03-29)
  2. Damac Digital plans 6GW data center expansion across four continents (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-06-04)
  3. Edgnex rebrands to Damac Data Centres (DatacenterDynamics, 2023-02-13)
  4. Edgnex breaks ground in Riyadh, picks JLL to manage facilities (DatacenterDynamics, 2022-03-29)
  5. EDGNEX breaks ground on new 20MW data centre in Riyadh (Middle East Construction News, 2022-03-30)
  6. DAMAC Data Centres' KSA facilities to go live before end of 2023 (Middle East Construction News, 2023-02-09)

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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.