Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has announced the launch of master-planned data centre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana.
The developer of industrial and logistics real estate in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia noted that aside from these new sites, there are "more to come" in its pipeline.
In the announcement, Agility said the sites are being readied at ultra-modern ALP warehousing complexes in fast-growing markets and mega-cities that are looking to add hyper-scale data centre capacity and resolve data latency, security and compliance challenges to speed their growth and improve competitiveness.
ALP has 1.5 million SQM of warehousing and 12 million SQM of industrial land across 12 emerging markets countries.
It announced its plans for data centre sites at the recent Capacity Middle East 2023 conference in Dubai.
Data centre campuses in the Middle East, Africa
ALP noted that it has readied data centre campuses in its existing parks with power allocation, fibre connectivity, building permits, strong sustainability features and high security.
The first set of campuses is in ALP parks in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Kuwait, Cairo (Egypt) and Accra-Tema (Ghana). ALP expects to add sites in other rapidly growing data centre markets, including Nairobi, Casablanca, Lagos and more.
Ronald Philip, senior director at ALP, said ALP is "uniquely poised with a portfolio of ideal sites across the Middle East and Africa."
"We have a strong track record of development in challenging markets, a healthy balance sheet, and the in-house engineering capability to meet the technical specifications of hyperscale data centre operators," Philip said.
He noted that in Kuwait, for example, the company's site offers an existing sub-station with 80 MW capacity, and the property is allocated for two 46,000 SQM data centre plots with capacity for expansion. In addition to conventional power, the Kuwait site offers 15+ MW of solar capacity.
Most global tech giants — Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others — have announced their intention to add data centre capacity in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
"Based on feedback from several data centre operators, we believe we can support them and accelerate their deployment through our data centre campuses," Philip said.
Stephen Beard, global head of Data Centers at Knight Frank, for his part, said: "We have strong feedback from our global clients that Agility's value proposition in challenging emerging markets will help them with faster speed to market with a credible, institutional developer as a partner."
