EMEA Region

Qatar data center partnership for MENA region

Ooredoo and Iron Mountain join forces to create Syntys, powering the future of AI, cloud and data centers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

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Why choose Syntys for your Middle East & North Africa data center?

In 2025, Ooredoo Group and Iron Mountain announced a landmark strategic partnership, providing Iron Mountain with a minority equity stake in Ooredoo’s carrier-neutral data center company, Syntys (formerly MENA Digital Hub [MDH]), to accelerate the growth of the region's digital economy.

This alliance immediately combines Ooredoo's deep regional market strength with Iron Mountain’s proven global expertise in hyperscale data center design, construction, and operations.

What this means for customers

Global expertise, local power

Syntys customers will benefit from Iron Mountain's long-standing experience and operational excellence, optimizing their infrastructure to meet demanding international standards for colocation, Cloud, and AI readiness.

Massive, accelerated scale

Potential to rapidly expand the Iron Mountain Data Centers' footprint to meet the escalating demand from hyperscalers and enterprises. This partnership provides the strategic support to quickly scale our platform for your future needs.

Focus on AI and hyperscale

Iron Mountain’s focus is on helping build a new generation of energy-efficient, AI-powered data centers designed to securely process the most complex IT workloads for governments, enterprises, and startups in the MENA region.

Commitment to growth

$1 billion investment

Syntys/Ooredoo has committed to a $1 billion investment in the medium term to drive hyperscale, cloud, colocation, and AI infrastructure development.

120+ megawatts of capacity

This capital will enable Syntys to expand its total capacity to over 120 megawatts across key markets in the MENA region, including Qatar, Kuwait, and Tunisia.

Global partner strength

Iron Mountain brings expertise from operating 400+ megawatts of capacity across 21 global markets (1.2 GW+ of current and future capacity) to deliver high-performance infrastructure and ensure operational excellence from day one.