GCC data-center capacity forecast, 2025 → 2030 (FTI Consulting)
~1 GW → 3.3 GWforecast
| Value kind | forecast — Forecasts are time-bound outlooks, not specifications; test decisions across plausible scenarios. |
|---|---|
| Scope | Regional GCC total, not per country; announced campus ceilings (the UAE–US AI campus hosting Stargate UAE up to ~5 GW, with a 1 GW first cluster; HUMAIN ~1.9 GW by 2030) are separate claims and are not on this trajectory. |
| As of | 2025-08-21 |
| Source | FTI Consulting (Javier Alvarez, senior managing director, TMT), quoted in Arab News, How Gulf states can develop data centers without straining scarce water resources (Khaled Al Khawaldeh, 21 August 2025, updated 4 September 2025): data center capacity in the Gulf Cooperation Council area is expected to triple over the next five years, from just over 1 GW to 3.3 GW by 2030. |
| Review | checking…review by 2026-12-31 · standard cadence |
| Recorded changes | last 2026-09-16 |
| Claim id | p2a-gcc-data-center-capacity-2025-2030 |
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