du Hyperscale Data Centre

Valued at approximately AED 2 billion, du's announced hyperscale data centre marks the operator's step beyond enterprise colocation into wholesale-scale infrastructure, with Microsoft named as the anchor tenant. The telco — which already runs five data centres across the UAE, including the datamena hub — will build and operate the facility, releasing capacity in tranches rather than in a single phase; du has not disclosed the total megawatt figure, exact location or completion date. Strategically, the project is tied to the UAE's sovereign cloud and AI agenda: it is intended to expand national data-processing capacity and host secure cloud services for organizations that need workloads kept under UAE jurisdiction. du's CEO has described the build as a pivotal leap in the company's ambition to act as a national hyperscaler. Until technical specifications are published, the project is best read as a Microsoft-aligned, government-backed capacity play rather than a conventional multi-tenant colocation offering.