Meeza to scale its data centre infrastructure to meet rising demand

11/03/2025 06:43 AST

With Qatar witnessing excessive demand for data centres, Meeza is scaling its infrastructure to meet the growing needs of enterprises, government agencies, and hyperscalers.

"Our upcoming data centre expansions will significantly enhance our capacity, efficiency, and artificial intelligence (AI) readiness, allowing us to support high-performance computing, machine learning, and sovereign cloud solutions," Mohamed Ali al-Ghaithani, chief executive officer, Meeza said in its 2024 annual report, which was recently presented before shareholders at the annual general assembly meeting.

With data centre demand in Qatar exceeding supply, Meeza is committed to aggressively scaling its infrastructure to meet the growing needs of enterprises, government agencies, and hyperscalers, he said.

Scaling data centre is one of Meeza's three key priorities that drive sustainable growth and long-term value creation.

Given that Meeza's data centre facilities are now fully utilised, it has begun the next phase of expansion to achieve the vision to enhance its data centre offering to support the country's ambitions, according to Meeza chairman Sheikh Hamad bin Abdulla bin Jassim al-Thani.

The company operates five certified data centres (M-Vaults 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), providing a total of 14MW of IT capacity, with expansion plans already underway to expand M-Vault 4 and advanced design phases in M-Vault 6 and M-Vault 7 to meet increasing demand from enterprises, government entities, and hyperscalers.

With digital transformation accelerating across sectors, Meeza is committed to expanding its secure, high-availability data centre footprint to support the increasing demand for computing power, data storage, and sovereign cloud solutions.

Meeza is investing in the expansion of its M-Vault data centre portfolio, increasing capacity to support high-growth workloads, the report said, adding the company is designing high-performance computing (HPC) environments into its new data centres, enabling AI training, machine learning, and data-intensive applications.

Meeza continues to provide secure, regulatory-compliant data centre colocation services, ensuring data sovereignty and local cloud adoption.

"Through these initiatives, Meeza is not only meeting Qatar's growing digital infrastructure needs but also reinforcing its role as a trusted partner for hyperscalers, enterprises, and government institutions," it said.

Stressing that AI is at the core of Meeza's future growth strategy, the board report said through Meeza.AI, the company is developing AI solutions that enhance automation, security, and data intelligence across its service offerings.

As businesses and governments continue to migrate towards cloud-first strategies, Meeza said it is committed to delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud solutions that cater to enterprise, hyperscalers, and regulatory requirements.

Highlighting that Meeza has shown strong fundamentals and is in a favourable position to capitalise on global industry trends; the board said the combination of high-growth, high-margin, and defensive revenue streams makes it a compelling long-term investment.

Gulf Times