The UAE’s push into cloud, AI, and sovereign digital services is driving rapid demand for carrier-neutral data centres, with the market projected to triple to $3.3bn by 2030 and the country accounting for nearly one-third of new Middle East capacity added in 2024. These facilities provide low-latency, multi-carrier interconnection essential for sectors like financial services, e-commerce, gaming, and government platforms. Growth is increasingly driven by distributed and edge infrastructure, as 75% of enterprise data is expected to be created and processed outside centralised data centres by 2025. Together, these trends are positioning the UAE as a major global hub for high-performance, secure, and resilient digital connectivity.
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