Speaking at Datacloud Congress in Cannes, DAMAC Group founder Hussain Sajwani said the company is positioning itself to address growing requirements for land, power and deployment speed as hyperscalers and governments race to secure compute capacity.
“AI is an infrastructure race,” said Sajwani. “The next generation of computing needs land, power, fibre, capital and construction certainty. DAMAC Digital brings those capabilities together in one platform.”
The planned portfolio spans markets across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including the US, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The company said it has signed agreements with five global hyperscalers and expects eight sites to be operational by the end of 2026.
DAMAC Digital is targeting more than 700MW of operational capacity across 14 sites by the first quarter of 2027, rising to 2GW by the end of the first quarter of 2028. The company said it has broken ground on 10 sites during the past five months.
The operator attributes its expansion strategy to a vertically integrated development model that combines site acquisition, power procurement, design, construction and capital deployment within a single platform. According to the company, this approach enables certain projects in Asia to move from land acquisition to live operations within 12 months.
The facilities are being designed to support high-density AI workloads, hyperscale cloud deployments and sovereign digital infrastructure requirements. DAMAC Digital said more than 90% of its planned facilities will incorporate liquid cooling infrastructure to support next-generation AI accelerators.
The announcement comes as data centre developers seek to secure power and suitable development sites amid surging demand for AI training and inference workloads. Industry participants increasingly view access to land, energy and construction capacity as key differentiators as hyperscalers expand global AI infrastructure footprints.
DAMAC Digital currently employs more than 600 staff across its design, procurement, construction and operations teams worldwide.
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