Khazna Data Centers has partnered with US-based chipmaker NVIDIA to develop large-scale AI infrastructure across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), with facilities designed to support NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture.
The announcement follows plans for a UAE-US AI campus with 5GW of capacity and highlights a continued expansion of US technology partnerships in the Gulf. The collaboration will see Khazna incorporate NVIDIA-certified blueprints across upcoming facilities, including AI factories and data halls capable of supporting up to 250MW of GPU-accelerated compute.
Under the agreement, Khazna will standardise NVIDIA-ready infrastructure across new developments, with most future data halls designed at 50MW capacity. The firm is expected to build a significant share of this capacity at the proposed UAE-US AI campus, part of the country’s broader ambition to scale up sovereign AI infrastructure.
Khazna aims to reach a total capacity of 1 GW across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, Kenya, and selected European markets, including France and Italy. Many of these sites are being positioned to support generative AI workloads, large language models, and real-time inference use cases.
NVIDIA’s Blackwell platform, launched in March 2024, is designed for training trillion-parameter models and powering advanced AI services. Certification of Khazna’s data halls ensures compatibility for large-scale AI deployment, particularly in regions with rising AI adoption and sovereign data initiatives.
The move comes amid growing investment by Gulf states in AI infrastructure. In May, the UAE-backed MGX initiative announced plans for regional AI hardware manufacturing, and Saudi Arabia’s PIF is reportedly exploring high-performance computing partnerships with global chipmakers.
No financial terms of the Khazna-NVIDIA collaboration were disclosed.
