Ooredoo: Qatar 1 Data center

Located in Doha, Qatar, Ooredoo Qatar’s Qatar 1 Data Centre (part of the company’s Qatar Data Centre portfolio) operates under the telecom-operator’s data-centre arm and is positioned as a high-availability, carrier-grade data-centre solution for businesses and government organisations across the region

With its strategic location in Qatar’s capital, the facility benefits from the country’s well-developed fiber and submarine-cable infrastructure and the regulatory framework favouring local hosting of critical infrastructure. It serves as a cornerstone in Ooredoo’s expansion of digital infrastructure for cloud, colocation, disaster-recovery and hyperscale workloads. 

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• The Qatar Data Centre portfolio spans approximately 60,000 sq ft of facility space across multiple sites operated by Ooredoo in Qatar.
• Offers a complete full-service portfolio including hosting, co-location, managed storage/backup, cloud services and disaster-recovery options. 
• Designed to carrier-standards infrastructure with fast connectivity, high-performance network backbone and multiple service options for enterprises. 
• Supports advanced workloads including AI/accelerated compute — Ooredoo has deployed NVIDIA Hopper GPUs in its local data-centres to deliver sovereign AI-cloud capability in Qatar.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• The data-centre service specification delivers high availability: Ooredoo’s hosting/co-location SLA provides facilities and LAN availability of ≥ 99.982% for service providers leasing space.
• The facility supports international and Qatari data-protection regulations (“maximum data-security … compliance with data protection regulations in Qatar and around the world”).
• Access to the data centre is governed by strict site rules, including escorted access for off-premises personnel, and controlled cross-connect and hosting services for third-party operators

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• The data centre offering is carrier-neutral in nature: Ooredoo provides an access service (“Access to Ooredoo Qatar Data Centres”) allowing other licensed operators (OLOs) to connect on equivalent technical and commercial terms.
• Cross-connect services between customer racks and operator racks are available under the hosting agreement within the QDC complexes. 
• Positioned to serve as a regional digital-infrastructure hub, the facilities support cloud, AI, and enterprise interconnection — aligning with Ooredoo’s strategy to scale data-centre capacity above 120 MW through a USD 1 billion investment. 

💼 Who It Serves

• Government agencies and public-sector organisations operating in Qatar and the Gulf-Coast region, requiring sovereign-domiciled data hosting, high availability and compliance.
• Enterprises, hyperscalers and cloud-service providers seeking a Middle-East base with advanced compute capabilities (including AI infrastructure) and carrier-neutral interconnect options.
• Telecom operators, service providers, ISPs and interconnect-centric firms looking to colocate within a network-rich facility and leverage Ooredoo’s backbone and connectivity options.
• Organisations with business-continuity, disaster-recovery or hybrid-cloud requirements underpinned by high-uptime infrastructure and service-level guarantees.