Ooredoo Kuwait, in collaboration with Nvidia, has started equipping its local data center with Nvidia H200 GPU units
In sum – what to know:
Kuwait’s first AI data center launched – Ooredoo Kuwait unveiled the nation’s first sovereign AI-enabled facility powered by Nvidia’s H200 GPUs, supporting Kuwait’s Vision 2035 digital strategy.
Infrastructure to enable AI sovereignty – The data center will host national AI workloads locally, enhancing data security, performance, and governance for public and private sectors.
Focus on skills and innovation – The Ooredoo–Nvidia partnership includes AI training, hackathons, and development of Kuwait-specific large language models to cultivate local expertise.
Arab carrier Ooredoo Kuwait has unveiled what it claims to be the country’s first sovereign AI-enabled data center, built in partnership with Nvidia.
The telco noted that the new facility will serve as a foundation for national AI development and digital sovereignty, while supporting Kuwait’s Vision 2035 objectives.
Abdulaziz Al-Babtain, CEO of Ooredoo Kuwait, said: “Today, the world no longer competes over traditional resources, but over computing power. The true energy of the future lies in artificial intelligence.”
Al-Babtain confirmed that Ooredoo Kuwait, in collaboration with Nvidia, has started equipping its local data center with Nvidia H200 GPU units, creating the country’s first integrated AI infrastructure. He emphasized that this effort “fully aligns with Kuwait’s national AI strategy,” and that Ooredoo’s evolution from a telecom operator into Kuwait’s “digital backbone” now supports both public and private sector innovation.
The executive noted that AI is already being applied across internal operations — from predictive analytics and network forecasting to sustainability initiatives — while also powering national applications in healthcare, education, and finance. The partnership with Nvidia will extend beyond infrastructure, supporting AI skill-building programs, hackathons, and local large language model (LLM) development.
In July, Ooredoo had launched advanced sovereign AI cloud services in Qatar.
Ooredoo said that the offering was built on the latest Nvidia Hopper GPUs, and it is hosted in its local data centers.
The company highlighted the importance of the deployment, as it will enable the provision of advanced artificial intelligence applications without relying on international providers. It plans to deliver high-performance computing infrastructure locally across key sectors, including energy, finance, logistics, healthcare, and smart city development.
Ooredoo is an Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP), which enables the Arab carrier to offer customers access to GPU technology and to Nvidia’s full software suite for AI development. This includes the Nvidia AI Enterprise platform, which, according to Ooredoo, simplifies and speeds up the process of building, testing and scaling AI models.
This launch directly supports the ambitions of the Qatar Digital Agenda 2030 and the Qatar National AI Strategy, which call for robust digital infrastructure, local hosting of critical technology and the responsible development of AI to benefit society and the economy, the telco added.
Ooredoo’s AI cloud platform will be run by local data center company Syntys, which was spun out of Ooredoo in March of this year following an investment from Iron Mountain. Prior to the launch of Syntys, Ooredoo Group said it had 26 data centers in operation across Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, and Tunisia.