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du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai)

du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: United Arab Emirates

UAE (Dubai-based operator du); exact site not disclosed in cited sources

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

69 /100
69/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

70 /100
70/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai) Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +30 du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company) (investor) investor role committed $544,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable).
Infrastructure baseline 70 du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-04-22).
Schedule staleness decay -25 du-Microsoft Hyperscale Data Center (Dubai) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-04-22 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Reuters (via Investing.com) · Apr 22, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/dubais-du-announces-2-billion-dirhams-hyperscale-data-center-deal-with-microsoft-3996553

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Reuters (via Investing.com) · relevance 0.85

  2. · UAE Embassy in Washington · relevance 0.70