SDAIA Hexagon is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by SDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority). It is under construction. The only published capacity figure is 480 MW of total facility power. IT load will be lower.
Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 1 January 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Power arranged.
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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 SDAIA Hexagon ranks first 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.
SDAIA has 1 other in Saudi Arabia tracked by ArusGrid, including SDAIA Salboukh data centre. Named funding comes from Government of Saudi Arabia on the equity side. The named user of the compute is Government of Saudi Arabia (confirmed).
The stage was recorded as under construction on 1 January 2026. Cooling uses hybrid air and liquid cooling.
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 1 May 2026, and last checked the record on 21 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.
Hosts more than 290 government systems. Government workloads with no disclosed AI purpose, cooling spec or accelerator deployment. Liquid cooling stated by Gulf Business on 2026-01-04. Direct liquid cooling plus hybrid systems.
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Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source
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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Project team on other projects: AlBawani