Digital DEWA’s Moro Hub breaks ground for solar-powered data centre in Dubai

Digital DEWA’s Moro Hub breaks ground for solar-powered data centre in Dubai

Officials have broken ground for the first phase of the largest solar-powered data centre in the Middle East and Africa, set to be Uptime TIER III-certified. Moro Hub (Data Hub Integrated Solutions), a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, DEWA’s digital arm, will build the data centre in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. With a capacity of more than 100 megawatts, the carbon-neutral green data centre will run entirely on renewable energy. This is the second solar-powered green data centre in Dubai launched by Moro Hub. It will offer digital products and services using fourth industrial revolution technologies, such as cloud services, the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). “The green data centre that Moro Hub implements will enable global hyper-scalers to access carbon-free computing. It will also help organisations in their sustainability initiatives to reduce their carbon footprint,” said Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). “Data is quickly becoming the new engine for economic expansion and diversification. As more data centre facilities are established in the future, this project serves as an exemplar of combining digital and power electronic technologies to create greener, low-carbon ICT infrastructure