EHC, Supermicro to build sovereign AI data centres
Partnership targets energy, healthcare and smart city AI deployments
#UAE #datacentres – Abu Dhabi-based diversified investment holding company EHC Investment, a subsidiary of conglomerate International Holding Company (IHC), and California-based global IT infrastructure leader Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) have announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop and deploy Sovereign AI Modular Data Centres (MDCs) across the UAE. Leveraging Supermicro’s Data Centre Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) architecture, the collaboration aims to deliver scalable, high-density, energy-efficient AI infrastructure with significantly compressed deployment timelines, targeting priority sectors including energy, healthcare, financial services and smart city ecosystems.
SO WHAT? – Access to high-performance AI computing capacity has become one of the most critical constraints on AI adoption globally, and the UAE is moving decisively to meet the challenge. By combining a modular, productised data centre architecture with strong regional investment and execution capability, the Supermicro partnership offers a capital-efficient and repeatable model for rapidly scaling sovereign AI infrastructure, reducing deployment risk while maintaining the performance standards that enterprise and government AI workloads demand.
Here are some key details about the deal:
EHC Investment and Supermicro have announced a strategic partnership to develop and deploy Sovereign AI Modular Data Centres across the UAE, combining Supermicro’s proven DCBBS architecture with EHC Investment’s regional infrastructure expertise and long-term investment capability.
Supermicro’s Data Centre Building Block Solutions architecture integrates compute, networking, storage, power, cooling, rack-level integration and deployment services into a single end-to-end solution, enabling faster, more predictable and lower-risk data centre deployments than traditional construction methods.
Deployment timelines are a key competitive advantage of the modular approach, with Supermicro’s DCBBS framework enabling data centre rollouts typically within six to nine months.
The partnership targets high-priority sectors including energy, healthcare, financial services and smart city ecosystems, where demand for sovereign, high-density AI and high-performance computing infrastructure is growing rapidly across the UAE and wider region.
EHC Investment is a subsidiary of International Holding Company (IHC), one of the UAE’s largest and most diversified conglomerates.
The initiative is aligned with EHC Investment’s broader infrastructure strategy, which focuses on developing foundational digital infrastructure platforms designed to support long-term economic growth, technological leadership and global competitiveness for the UAE.
Both organisations will collaborate on MDC reference architectures, deployment frameworks and coordinated delivery models, with the shared objective of creating a scalable, secure and high-performance sovereign AI infrastructure ecosystem across the country.
The announcement marks the start of a strategic working relationship, with both parties committed to evaluating further project opportunities, operational frameworks and expanded collaboration in the future.
Supermicro is a globally listed technology company trading on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker SMCI, with server, AI, storage, IoT and switching systems designed and manufactured across facilities in the United States, Taiwan and the Netherlands.
ZOOM OUT – The EHC Investment partnership is one of several moves signalling that Supermicro is deliberately ramping up its presence across the Middle East. During US President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia in May 2025, Riyadh-headquartered data centre operator DataVolt announced a strategic partnership with Supermicro to build hyperscale AI campuses with an estimated minimum market value of $20 billion. That collaboration will deliver Supermicro's ultra-dense GPU platforms, storage and rack systems for DataVolt's planned gigawatt-class renewable AI campuses, featuring direct liquid cooling technology that reduces power costs by up to 40 per cent.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]