Etisalat, a telecom company based in Abu Dhabi, is planning to construct two additional data facilities in an effort to meet the growing demand of digital transformation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The Al Ain campus will span 1,700 square meters (18,300 square feet) with 4 megawatts of overall IT power, while the average density per rack will be 6 kilowatts, according to TechRadar. It is expected to be up and running in the third quarter of this year.
The Jebel Ali campus will span around 4,000 square meters (43,000 square feet), with an initial capacity of 12.4 megawatts of IT power — enough to service customers for the next five years. It is expected to be Etisalat’s biggest data center in the UAE. It will go live by the third quarter of 2020.
Etisalat currently operates 10 commercial data centers in the country, eight of which are owned and two that are third-party and white-labelled but sold under the Etisalat name, noted TechRadar.
