How Khazna & Nvidia are Accelerating AI Factories Across MEA
Hoping to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), both Khazna Data Centers and Nvidia are teaming up.
Sharing a mutual understanding of how demand for AI infrastructure is booming across the region, both organisations have pledged to build AI factories to accelerate its delivery.
As part of the collaboration, Nvidia has certified the design of Khazna’s next-generation facilities to support Nvidia Blackwell architecture. The data centre company’s ongoing and upcoming infrastructure developments will be further supported by Nvidia via its blueprints as a standard to ensure compatibility with the latest GPU-accelerated workloads.
“The world is entering a new era of AI-driven innovation and the UAE is uniquely positioned to lead,” says Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna Data Centers.
“Our work with NVIDIA represents a bold step forward in delivering high-performance, future-ready infrastructure at unprecedented scale. It reinforces our support for the UAE’s ambitions to become a global AI leader.”
A new digital chapter for MEA
As part of the partnership, Khazna will design the majority of its future data halls with capacities of up to 50MW, developing individual AI clusters of up to 250MW.
With many of these data halls situated in the planned UAE-US AI campus, Khazna hopes to place the UAE among the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure hubs.
Already, the region is seeing immense interest from around the world. When US President Donald Trump visited the UAE on a state visit, it was announced that a massive AI data centre campus would be built in Abu Dhabi. The facility will allegedly be a 5GW UAE-US campus.
Although the data centre deal has not been finalised, it speaks to the significant interest that the Middle East is garnering to develop digital services and infrastructure and how developing ties between the region and US technology leaders are designed to shape the future of AI and digital infrastructure.
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Khazna is expanding rapidly across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, with plans to scale up to 1GW of capacity in countries such as France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye and Kenya.
The company in May 2025 announced its expansion intentions for Türkiye, including a new AI-ready facility in Ankara. It has also secured a site in Başkent Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) in the country that will reportedly support up to 100MW of computing capacity when fully developed.
The new facility represents part of Khazna's expanding global network of hyperscale data centres that provide the digital infrastructure foundation for future economies.
Speaking at the time, H.E. Saeed Thani Hareb Al Dhaheri, Ambassador of the UAE to Türkiye, explained: “Khazna Data Centers' expansion into Türkiye is a testament to the deepening ties between our countries.
“Relations with Türkiye are of great importance within the UAE's strategy to strengthen its partnerships, expand its relations and reinforce bridges of cooperation in all fields.”
Nvidia’s AI Factory bid to advance infrastructure
Nvidia's AI supercomputers serve as the computational foundation for a new category of data centres designed specifically for AI workloads.
These facilities, which Nvidia refers to as AI Factories, host the infrastructure that powers emerging AI applications and services across various sectors.
Industry projections indicate that tens of 'gigawatt AI factories' – data centres consuming electricity at the scale of gigawatts – will be constructed in the coming years to meet the growing demand for AI computing capabilities.
It comes at a time where data centre operators are facing increasing pressures to secure reliable supplies of advanced computing hardware amid growing demand for AI services.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in April 2025: “The engines of the world's AI infrastructure are being built in the US for the first time.”
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