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Khazna AUH8 Masdar City AI Data Center

Khazna AUH8 Masdar City AI Data Center

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: United Arab Emirates

Ar Rawafid Street, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi; coordinates approximate to Masdar City

Capacity
30 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

75.3 /100
75.3/100

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

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

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 Khazna AUH8 Masdar City AI Data Center Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +30 Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (lender) lender role committed $2,620,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Khazna AUH8 Masdar City AI Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Khazna AUH8 Masdar City AI Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Khazna AUH8 Masdar City AI Data Center No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-04-21).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

  2. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
G42
Investor
— —
Khazna Data Centers
Operator
— —
Khazna Data Centers
Owner
— —
MGX
Investor
— —
Silver Lake
Investor
— —
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Lender
— $2.6B
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Lender
— —
James L. Williams Middle East
Epc Contractor
— —

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. E4
    Developing Telecoms - Khazna starts work on two new AI data centres in Abu Dhabi

    Developing Telecoms · backs: capacity mw, expected date

    https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/data-centres-networks/18377-khazna-starts-work-on-two-new-ai-data-centres-in-abu-dhabi.html

  2. E4
    DCD - Khazna breaks ground on two data centers in Abu Dhabi

    DCD · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/khazna-breaks-ground-on-two-data-centers-in-abu-dhabi/

Signals

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

  1. E2
    Khazna - Unlocks $2.62bn Facility in One of Region's Largest-Ever Financing Deals

    · Khazna · relevance 0.30

  2. E2
    Khazna - Welcomes MGX and Silver Lake as Strategic Minority Investors

    · Khazna · relevance 0.30

  3. E2
    James L. Williams Middle East - Khazna Data Centre AUH8 - 30MW Data Centre (project page)

    James L. Williams Middle East · relevance 0.95

  4. E4
    DCD - Khazna breaks ground on two data centers in Abu Dhabi

    DCD · relevance 0.90

  5. E4
    Developing Telecoms - Khazna starts work on two new AI data centres in Abu Dhabi

    Developing Telecoms · relevance 0.90