Saudi Arabia
Edarat secures data centre contract with major regional bank
Saudi data centre and cloud provider Edarat has secured a major new colocation mandate from Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF), underlining continued enterprise demand for third-party digital infrastructure in the Kingdom. While the full contract value has not been disclosed, BSF said it exceeds five percent of its 2025 total revenue, signalling a sizeable deployment. The award comes alongside a separate $19.17Mn contract for Edarat to design and supervise the establishment of an AI data centre, further strengthening its position in Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing digital infrastructure market. Edarat, which operates six facilities across Riyadh and Dammam and has been involved in more than 150 data centre projects, also reported strong 2025 financial results, with revenue up 84% YoY and net profit rising 47%, reflecting growing demand for cloud, colocation, and AI-related services in the Saudi market…Read more
Egypt
Egypt explores green hydrogen-powered hyperscale data centres in Sinai
Egypt is exploring a major clean energy and digital infrastructure opportunity I Sinai, where Renergy Group is advancing a $15Bn green hydrogen and solar project alongside plans for a proposed hyperscale data centre backed by around $1Bn of investment. The wider El-Tor development is expected to combine green hydrogen production, solar generation, and energy storage across a 127 sq.km site, with the potential data centre powered by off-grid renewable energy from the project. The facility would reportedly launch at 10,000 sq.m with scope to expand to as much as 500,000 sq.m, which could make it one of the largest in the region. For Egypt, the proposal reflects a broader ambition ti position itself at the intersection of clean energy, subsea connectivity, and digital infrastructure, leveraging Sinai’s Red Sea location and proximity to major international cable routes to attract long-term strategic investment in both green industry and hyperscale computing…Read more
GCC & Global
Qatar and the UAE named in emerging US-led $4Tn strategic investment initiative
The Trump administration is reportedly planning a new voluntary consortium aimed at mobilising up to $4Tn of investment into energy, critical minerals, semiconductors, and wider strategy supply chain infrastructure. The initiative is expected to build on the US State Department’s Pax Silica programme, which was launched to strengthen secure semiconductor and technology supply chains among allied countries. While questions remain over how the full $4Tn figure will be reached, the plan is notable for its geopolitical scope and the inclusion of key key Gulf partners, with both Qatar and the UAE already signed up to Pax Silica. Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala has also reportedly been identified as a potential founding member of the wider investment group, highlighting the growing role Gulf capital could play in shaping trusted global supply chains for technology, energy, and industrial infrastructure…Read more
United Kingdom
UK data centre growth shifts North as power constraints hit the South-East
A new UK data centre pipeline analysis suggests the country’s largest developments are increasingly shifting north, as power constraints, land scarcity, and market saturation continue to weigh on London and the South-East. According to Barbour ABI, 119 data centre projects totalling around 8GW are currently in planning or under construction across the UK, with the M62 corridor emerging as the most active region by both project count and capacity. While London and the M4 corridor continue to remain significant, only one of the UK’s ten largest planned schemes is located in the capital region, with major new capacity instead concentrated in areas such as North Lincolnshire, the North-East, Scotland, and North Wales. The findings reinforce a broader market trend: future UK data centre growth is becoming increasingly power-led and geographically diversified, with developers looking to northern markets that can offer large sites, lower land cots, and better access to grid capacity and renewable of nuclear power sources…Read more