#Qatar #datacentres - Ooredoo-backed data centre operator Syntys has broken ground on a new 20MW data centre in Qatar. The facility is first new build since the company bought Doha Venture Capital’s data centre arm Q Data QFZ earlier this year. The deal allows Syntys to acquire 12.5MW and two Tier III-compliant facilities. Syntys now owns and operates four Qatar campuses, so customers can run primary and disaster recovery environments in separate in-country locations. The company targets more than 120MW across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by 2030.
SO WHAT? - Syntys is scaling in Qatar by two routes at once, both buying live capacity and building-out new facilities. Most organisations are reliant on cloud platforms to run their AI applications, which means data centres need denser racks and more specialised cooling to handle AI workloads. Syntys is designing for those densities, but the test is how quickly the 20MW comes online and how the company balances customer demand and its 120MW regional built-out.
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Ooredoo-backed data centre operator Syntys has broken ground on a new 20MW data centre facility in Qatar to expand capacity for large-scale computing. The company was formed by Ooredoo in 2025, Syntys, to design, build and operate data centres nationally and beyond.
The project forms part of a strategy to scale the Qatar platform through acquisition and new build. Earlier this year Syntys acquired Q Data QFZ, adding two operational, Tier III-compliant, carrier-neutral facilities.
Syntys now owns and operates four campuses in Qatar. That lets customers deploy primary and disaster recovery environments in separate in-country locations, which matters for organisations with data residency requirements.
Chief executive Sunita Bottse describes Qatar as the company’s home market. She says demand is turning into larger, denser and more varied deployments, and the new capacity is being designed for the densities customers are moving towards.
Qatar’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mohammed bin Ali bin Mohammed Al Mannai, attended the groundbreaking. So did senior representatives from Ooredoo Group, Microsoft, Google, Kahramaa, the National Cyber Security Agency, Qatar Free Zones Authority and local banks.
Announced in January 2026, the Q Data purchase secured 12.5MW of hyperscale capacity for Syntys, made up of 5MW live and 7.5MW under development in Qatar Free Zones. This brought the company’s live IT capacity in Qatar to 26MW.
Q Data’s facilities serve cloud and AI customers. The seller, Doha Venture Capital, is a subsidiary of Qatar Free Zones Authority, and the deal moved ownership of the infrastructure to Ooredoo’s data centre operator.
Syntys was set up in 2025 through the spin-out of Ooredoo Group’s regional data centre operations. It runs facilities across several markets in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond.
ZOOM OUT - Ooredoo Group spun-out its data centre business in 2025 creating Syntys for the design, construction, and management of data centres (and taking-over Ooredoo’s Mena Digital Hub assets). The formation of Syntys followed Ooredoo’s securing of a QAR 2 billion ($549 million) financing deal in September 2024 with QNB, Doha Bank and Masraf Al Rayan to expand data centre operations across MENA. The 10-year hybrid facility, the largest technology transaction ever recorded in Qatar, supports Ooredoo’s rollout of AI and cloud infrastructure across markets with a combined population exceeding 76 million.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
Source: Syntys
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