Oman has two data center projects in progress

A 45 MW data center campus planned at Oman’s Khazaen Economic City in Barka is targeting initial operations in 2028, Oman Observer reports. The facility could expand to 100 MW depending on demand. It aims to serve cloud operators, AI developers, and high-performance computing customers. No investment value has been disclosed.

Oman already had (bigger) data center plans in Salalah: UK green-energy developer Yamna signed an MoU last month to build a Salalah data center whose first phase is expected to cost more than GBP 1 bn, or about USD 1.3 bn. A Mubbadrah Investment-led consortium has proposed a USD 3 bn campus there that could eventually be home to as much as 400 MW of capacity.

MEANWHILE- Vodafone Egypt will own about 30% of a joint venture that wants to build the largest data center in Egypt and its first sovereign AI data center, Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub told TechCentral this week. Other partners in the venture, announced in September, include Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies.

The project has a price tag of about USD 1 bn, but it will be built out in phases, Joosub said, financing it through both equity and debt. Vodacom will probably handle “the lion’s share of the sales of the data center to customers,” Joosub told Bloomberg.