How much regional data-center capacity is actually deliverable?
Separating announced megawatts from deliverable capacity, operating assets, and investable infrastructure clusters.
Madar research
Evidence for the Gulf's hardest infrastructure questions.
We investigate the physical, commercial, and institutional systems behind energy, AI, data-center, and industrial ambitions in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the wider Gulf. Every public conclusion is tied to sources, definitions, uncertainty, and open evidence.
Published / 22 July 2026
From headline megawatts to delivered compute.
Gross announcement universe4,000 MWAmbition measure—not a market total
A source-linked audit of thirteen Saudi and UAE physical assets, programs, and cloud regions. The work separates announced capacity and live cloud services from site control, physical delivery, firm power, energization, and operability evidence.
- Cases audited
- 13
- Explicit IT load
- 1 / 13
- Public firm connection MW
- 0 / 13
Research agenda
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Corrections and source-supported updates are welcome.
Madar keeps a dated evidence cutoff and distinguishes corrections from information published after that cutoff.
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