Etisalat/EITC subsidiary DU made news in December of 2024 when it teamed up with AIHostingHub to set up the first NVIDIA supercluster in the GCC in Dubai Silicon Oasis. Housed in Supermicro liquid-cooled racks with a power consumption of over 5 MW, this high-density cluster serves huge AI workloads and showcases regional advances in chip-level compute architecture and sustainability.
Concurrently, the recently announced UAE–US AI campus, a 5 GW mega data center project disclosed in May 2025, chose Cisco and Oracle as key technology partners. GCC is at the vanguard of the worldwide growth of AI infrastructure thanks to Cisco's provision of cutting-edge networking and edge compute gear and Oracle's anticipated operation of a portion of the campus under the OpenAI "Stargate" program.
With significant government backing under National Vision 2030, Google Cloud launched its Doha cloud region in Qatar, implementing services to serve AI, ML, and HPC workloads in both the public and commercial sectors.
In the meanwhile, to enable industrial and mission-critical AI applications, Microsoft, in collaboration with Aramco Digital and Armada, installed Galleon edge data centers and high-performance Azure infrastructure throughout Saudi Arabia.
In order to support hyperscale expansion, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies, both of which are included in GCC investment reports, continue to provide cloud infrastructure and core IT services throughout regional data centers.
Sovereign cloud projects that focus on intra-GCC computing autonomy and regional data sovereignty, like Oracle's Dedicated Region in Bahrain, which was introduced alongside Beyon Solutions, further speed up these deployments.
Collectively, these advancements—from edge-to-core compute expansions, sovereign hosted solutions, NVIDIA-based AI clusters, and hyperscaler cloud regions—are quickly expanding grid computing and HPC capacity across the GCC, facilitating wider enterprise, government, and research adoption in AI-driven industries.
