Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 today announced a coordinated expansion that will add 200 megawatts (MW) of new data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates through Khazna Data Centers, a G42 subsidiary — a project the partners say will be online before the end of 2026 and is explicitly framed...
Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 announced a 200‑megawatt expansion of data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates, a move folded into a broader Microsoft commitment of roughly $15.2 billion for UAE AI and cloud infrastructure between 2023 and 2029; the partners say the new capacity will begin...
Microsoft and G42 announced a joint expansion that will add 200 megawatts of datacenter capacity to the UAE, part of a broader $15.2 billion investment program aimed at accelerating the country’s AI and cloud ambitions while pairing large-scale compute with new governance, skilling, and...
Microsoft’s announcement that it will invest roughly $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates and has secured U.S. export approvals to deploy advanced NVIDIA GB300-class systems in-country marks a watershed moment in the global AI infrastructure race—one that reshapes where frontier AI compute...
Microsoft’s announcement that Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions for qualified UAE organizations will be processed in‑country marks a significant inflection point for public‑sector AI adoption, pairing the firm’s generative capabilities with local data residency, reduced latency, and regulatory...
Oracle and Microsoft’s multicloud marriage just took another step into the Middle East: Oracle Database@Azure is now available in the United Arab Emirates, bringing Oracle-managed database services into Azure’s UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) and UAE North (Dubai) regions and giving customers local...
Cloud-first strategies are no longer a future aspiration in the UAE — they are the operational backbone of a national digital agenda that ties sovereign cloud, hyperscaler partnerships, and large-scale AI ambitions into a single, fast-moving transformation story.
Background / Overview
The UAE’s...