UAE-based data center operator XDS has signed an agreement with a tech park in Pakistan for a liquid-cooled data center.

Located in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh, the Al Nahal IT Park will contain what XDS claims to be Pakistan’s first liquid-cooled facility.

The tech park’s website also states that the facility will be Pakistan’s “first sovereign, ESG-compliant Tier III+ modular data centers.”

The agreement was signed at GITEX Global, a tech expo held in Dubai.

Details about the facility’s development timeline and its capacity were not disclosed.

XDS specializes in modular, liquid-cooled facilities. The company has signed data center deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the past three months, but it does not currently operate a data center.

Pakistan is making attempts to grow its relatively small data center market.

In May, the country’s Finance Ministry said that it would allocate 2GW of state grid electricity to Bitcoin mining and AI data centers. In August, Huawei and Indus Cloud said they were developing a data center in the country.