Syntys Breaks Ground on 20 MW Data Centre in Qatar

Nov 12, 2026
Syntys began building a 20 MW data centre in Qatar designed for cloud, AI and high-performance computing.

Data centre company Syntys has broken ground on a 20 MW data centre in Qatar, the company said in a press release. Qatar's Minister of Communications and Information Technology attended the ceremony alongside representatives of Ooredoo, Microsoft, Google and the state utility Kahramaa.

The facility is designed to Tier III standards for hyperscale, cloud, AI and high-performance computing workloads. Syntys already designs and operates the facilities that host Ooredoo's sovereign AI cloud, which runs on Nvidia Hopper GPUs, and says the project is part of a plan to grow its Qatar platform through acquisitions and new builds.

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