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Microsoft-G42 UAE 200MW Capacity Expansion (via Khazna)

Microsoft-G42 UAE 200MW Capacity Expansion (via Khazna)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: United Arab Emirates

UAE, multiple Khazna-delivered sites; specific facilities not disclosed in cited sources. Note: may partially overlap with Khazna's announced build pipeline (e.g. AUH4/AUH8) — claims kept separate pending site-level disclosure

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

Delivery health score

71.5 /100
71.5/100

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 Microsoft-G42 UAE 200MW Capacity Expansion (via Khazna) Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +30 Microsoft (investor) investor role committed $15,200,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Microsoft-G42 UAE 200MW Capacity Expansion (via Khazna) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Microsoft-G42 UAE 200MW Capacity Expansion (via Khazna) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Microsoft-G42 UAE 200MW Capacity Expansion (via Khazna) 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 (2025-11-01).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
G42
Investor
— —
G42
Owner
— —
Microsoft
Investor
— $15.2B
Khazna Data Centers
Developer
— —
Khazna Data Centers
Operator
— —

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. E3
    Microsoft Source EMEA - Microsoft and G42 Accelerate UAE's Digital Future with Major Data Centre Expansion

    Microsoft Source EMEA · backs: actual date, capacity mw, expected date

    https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2025/11/microsoft-and-g42-accelerate-uaes-digital-future-with-major-data-centre-expansion/

Signals

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

  1. E3
    Microsoft Source EMEA - Microsoft and G42 Accelerate UAE's Digital Future with Major Data Centre Expansion

    Microsoft Source EMEA · relevance 0.70