Mubbadrah Consortium Plans $3B, 400 MW Oman AI Data Center
Mubbadrah Investment's consortium plans a $3 billion AI data center of up to 400 MW in Oman, with 400 MW of solar and storage. Crusoe has only expressed interest as off-taker; no site is named.
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Mubbadrah Investment's consortium announced the plan on Oct 24; no site is named and Crusoe has only expressed interest.
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Omani investment group Mubbadrah Investment said on Oct 24 that a consortium it leads will develop a $3 billion AI data center in Oman with a planned capacity of up to 400 MW, according to TradeArabia.
The campus is designed to serve hyperscale computing operators and is meant to carry large-scale AI training and inference workloads. Mubbadrah is developing it with Sustopia Capital, Vela Tech and O2 Global Energy, and the announcement leaves room for expansion later. The partners revealed it at a signing ceremony in London during Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tarik's state visit to the United Kingdom.
Crusoe, the US AI infrastructure company, is named only as a potential off-taker. TradeArabia reports that Crusoe has expressed interest in taking the campus's data centre capacity and that the consortium expects to sign a confirmation of that interest in the coming weeks. That is not a signed lease or a capacity commitment, and no volume, term or price has been disclosed.
How the Oman Campus Would Get Its Power
Power is the part of the plan that is easiest to size. The facility will draw on the national grid and on renewable sources, and O2 Global Energy will develop 400 MW of solar generation with battery storage to supply additional clean energy to the campus.
The plan pairs grid power with 400 MW of solar and storage for a campus of up to 400 MW, TradeArabia reports; the grid share is not stated.
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The 400 MW solar figure matches the campus ceiling in number only. The announcement gives no figure for how much of the load the solar and storage would cover, no battery capacity in MWh, and no grid connection size or date. Solar output peaks in daylight, so a campus running AI training around the clock would still lean on the grid or on storage after dark. The source also does not say whether 400 MW means critical IT load or total campus demand.
Who Is Behind the Oman Consortium
Mubbadrah describes itself as an Omani group with more than 20 companies across oil and gas, hospitality, healthcare and other sectors. Sustopia Capital says it has a 5 GW data centre platform spanning Denmark, the United States and the United Kingdom. Vela Tech, which will support the design and manage construction, said it has worked on Stargate in Abilene, Texas, and other large sites totalling more than 20 GW. These are the companies' own descriptions of their track records.
For context on Crusoe's recent site announcements, see Voltgrid's report on the 106 MW Paraguay project beside the Itaipú dam. The Oman campus would be several times that size, but it is a plan with an expected interest letter, not a build under way.
What Remains Unconfirmed About the Oman Project
No construction start, phasing or completion date has been given. The source does not name the site within Oman, the land, the grid operator or the financing structure, and it does not say how the $3 billion is split between data halls, power and other costs. Crusoe's role rests on an expected confirmation of interest, which the consortium says will follow in the coming weeks. Voltgrid found no Oman News Agency, Crusoe or Mubbadrah release beyond the TradeArabia report and a rewrite of it, and no later report of a signed agreement as of Oct 25.
