Damac Digital
UAE-based developer building roughly 6,000 MW of data-centre capacity across 13 countries.
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Could Gulf capital-arbitrage builders like Damac Digital out-pace the US hyperscale market?
What is Damac Digital?
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Background
Damac Digital is the digital-infrastructure Arm of Damac Group, the Dubai property conglomerate founded by Hussain Sajwani. Launched in 2021 with a 12MW campus, it has grown into a global data-centre developer with over 600 staff across three continents.
Its model is capital arbitrage: build hyperscale capacity fast in jurisdictions with lighter permitting and no equivalent power levies, then sign hyperscaler tenants once sites are ready. It already operates live capacity in Saudi Arabia and Thailand.
Damac Digital says its planned IT capacity landbank has reached 6,000MW across 13 countries and more than 35 sites, spanning North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with 10 new sites broken ground in the past five months. It is targeting over 700MW operational by Q1 2027 and 2GW by Q1 2028.
The company frames this expansion as a direct beneficiary of the US regulatory backlash: as Virginia taxes data-centre power use and New York weighs a building freeze, a Gulf-based developer with no equivalent levy or moratorium risk can site the same hyperscale capacity elsewhere on a faster timeline.
