NodeShift’s partnership with Qareeb Data Centres was formally sealed at VivaTech 2025 in Paris, where H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, the UAE’s Minister of Economy, witnessed the signing in the UAE Pavilion. His presence underscored the Emirate’s ambition to position itself as a global hub for emerging technologies and highlighted the strategic importance of this alliance in advancing regional innovation and advanced-technology cooperation.
Qareeb is building a network of thirty-six edge data centres—each ranging from 2 MW to 6 MW in key GCC and wider Middle-East markets, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Egypt, and Jordan. This real-estate footprint gives enterprises in each country immediate access to in-country colocation capacity that complies with local data-sovereignty mandates.
NodeShift brings the software layer: a sovereign AI cloud platform that lets customers spin up more than 140 AI agents and large-language models in a single click, optimised for private, on-premise, or decentralised environments. By combining Qareeb’s regional facilities with NodeShift’s deployment engine, organisations can run latency-sensitive AI workloads locally, cut reliance on distant hyperscalers, and shrink total cost of ownership.
The Memorandum of Understanding sets four principal objectives. First, Qareeb will host NodeShift’s sovereign AI solutions inside its GCC-based data centres, ensuring that sensitive data never leaves national borders.
Second, the two companies will act as strategic channel partners, co-selling and co-marketing to accelerate customer acquisition across the region.
Third, they will integrate NodeShift’s one-click deployment platform with Qareeb’s infrastructure so that new AI zones can be rolled out quickly and sustainably.
Finally, both parties will deliver dedicated regional support teams so customers receive end-to-end performance guarantees and shared service-level agreements.
For governments and enterprises, the collaboration translates into dramatically shorter time-to-deployment, moving from weeks to under a day while still meeting strict data-residency, security, and compliance requirements. With local cloud zones in every GCC country, customers gain the low-latency performance their AI applications demand and enjoy an estimated 40 percent reduction in combined capital and operating expenditure compared with traditional hyperscale models.
Ultimately, the NodeShift–Qareeb alliance lays a sovereign foundation for next-generation digital services, from defence-grade language models to telecom network optimisation delivered entirely within regional borders. By marrying world-class data-centre engineering with frictionless AI deployment, the partnership gives Middle-Eastern innovators a faster, cheaper, and fully compliant path to generative-AI adoption.
