21 August 2026
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Research
Grace Langham
Tracker | Excel
| Data Centres
Analysys Mason's Data centre database tracks investment in physical data centre facilities in the Middle East and Africa.
The database provides details of data centres that are planned, under construction and operational, and enables analysis by region, country and city. It is updated monthly.
Data has been gathered from publicly available sources, including information published by investors, governments, public information sources (such as planning portals), regulators, vendors and local newspaper articles.
Key metrics (where publicly available)
- Data centre name
- Ownership
- Owner type (hyperscaler, operator, AI compute provider, co-location provider, private equity/investment fund, other IT service or cloud provider, government, other)
- Joint venture investments
- Location (street, town/city/country/region)
- Facility type (co-location, edge, AI, enterprise, hyperscale, other)
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- Facility tier (1–4)
- Building size (square metres)
- IT space (square metres)
- Total racks
- Build status (planned, under construction, operational, decommissioned)
- Planned launch date
- Expansion plans
- Total power capacity
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- IT power capacity
- Power type (grid, nuclear, renewable (by type))
- Renewable percentage
- Cooling types
- Total cost of build
- Acquisition history
- Standalone data centre or data centre within a campus
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Geographical coverage
- Algeria
- Angola
- Bahrain
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Iran
- Iraq
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- Israel
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Palestine
- Qatar
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- Republic of Congo
- Reunion
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somaliland
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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