A data center has been launched inside the UAE’s 'Innovation City,' one of the country’s Free Zones located in Ras Al Khaimah.

Details about the size and capacity of the data center were not disclosed.

The facility is operated by sovereign cloud provider Siada, which allows users inside Innovation City to rent Nvidia B200s “by the hour, inside the Emirates, with residency you can prove down to the moment you were billed.”

“Innovation City's AI companies get immediate access to the world's most sought-after GPUs,” reads a press release from the organization.

“Founders and enterprises inside Innovation City can access this power by the hour, reserve long-term capacity, or deploy fully managed on-premises environments where Siada runs their models in isolated, sovereign infrastructure from day one.”

Siada is also set to deploy other data centers, with “additional sites to follow across the UAE and the wider region,” according to a post on X by IOPn, an Emirati technology company.

Innovation City, previously known as RAK Digital Assets Oasis, is positioning itself as an AI startup hub.

Although the perception of the UAE as a safe hub for data centers was threatened earlier in March when Iran attacked several AWS facilities in the country, several data center proposals in the country have gone ahead since then.

Pure DC announced in April that it would expand its data center from 41MW to 48MW, and the Dominican private bank Asprofin announced a proposal for a large-scale data center program of up to $12 billion last month.