UAE: Emerge signs agreement to develop solar plant for Khazna Data Centres Facility in Masdar City

UAE: Emerge signs agreement to develop solar plant for Khazna Data Centres Facility in Masdar City

ABU DHABI - Emerge, a joint venture between Masdar and EDF, and Khazna Data Centres, the largest network of hyperscale data centres in the Middle East and North Africa region, have signed an agreement to develop a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) plant to power Khazna’s new data centre in Masdar City.

The plant, which has obtained Abu Dhabi’s Department of Energy Solar Photovoltaic (PV) self-regulating generation license, will have an installed capacity of 7-megawatt peak (MWp) and will provide electricity to the Khazna Abu Dhabi 6 (AUH 6) facility which is currently under construction in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi’s flagship sustainable urban development. Emerge will provide a full turnkey solution for the project, including finance, design, procurement, construction, operations, and maintenance, for 25 years.

Hassan Alnaqbi, Chief Executive Officer of Khazna, said, “The increasing demand for data has been astounding. To successfully meet the growing reliance on data and the rise of IoT, data centres have had to rapidly expand their infrastructure. As a result, data centres have inevitably become some of the world’s main consumers of energy. At Khazna Data Centres, we recognise the impact that data centres have on the environment, and we are designing and constructing today’s data centres