A GCC-wide tracker of AI data centres, hyperscale cloud regions and sovereign-compute projects, separating operating regions from announced gigawatt-scale programmes.
The Gulf's AI infrastructure story is no longer only a list of very large announced gigawatt targets. The region also contains operating hyperscale cloud regions in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain, plus local and on-premises infrastructure in markets that do not yet have a full hyperscale region.
This tracker therefore keeps three layers distinct: operating cloud infrastructure, announced or under-construction AI capacity, and distributed infrastructure such as Local Zones or Outposts. A 500MW AI-factory programme is not added to a cloud region whose operator has not disclosed MW.
Methodology
A row requires an identifiable GCC country and an operator or consortium source, or a high-quality report for a newly announced project. Hyperscale Regions, Availability Zones, Local Zones and Outposts are labelled according to the provider's own terminology because they are not interchangeable forms of capacity.
MW figures are recorded only when disclosed. Partnership announcements without site-level capacity remain in the tracker for ecosystem context but are excluded from capacity totals. A project becomes operating only when the operator confirms service availability or commissioned infrastructure.
These dataset-specific rules operate under the publication's research methodology, including its source hierarchy, refresh policy and treatment of missing values.
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