Egyptian energy company Renergy Group may develop a data center alongside its green energy projects in the Sinai Peninsula.

Renergy is constructing a green hydrogen and solar power plant worth $15 billion across 127 sq km in the El-Tor area, which is located in southern Sinai.

This will aim to produce around 400,000 tons of liquid green hydrogen in a year, intended for export to European countries, according to a Renergy press release.

According to Renergy’s website, the facility will operate off-grid with 15GW of solar capacity.

A data center sourcing energy from the plant may also be built.

The facility would initially span 10,000 sqm (108,000 sq ft) with the possibility of expansion up to 500,000 sqm (5.4 million sq ft).

Estimates of the data center’s capacity were not provided.

Renergy Group is the product of a “collaboration” between the National Organization of Military Production, a supervisory body affiliated with the Egyptian military; renewable energy company Green Tech Egypt; and Bahrain-based biogas company Oak Group Holding.

Whilst Egypt is not a prominent data center hub, the country’s strategic location has made it home to various forms of communications infrastructure. The Suez Canal is a main artery for subsea cables connecting Europe to Asia and the East Coast of Africa, with more than the dozen systems running through the region.