Al-Khobar has 1 data center listed on DataColoc, operated notably by center3. Compare colocation (rack, half-rack, 1U), pricing, certifications and connectivity, then get an instant costed estimate.
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2 networks are listed at the sites in Al-Khobar according to public interconnection registries. That number drives your negotiating power: every carrier inside the building is one more quote, with no civil works.
A city has no electricity of its own: the sites in Al-Khobar are connected to the national grid, itself interconnected with its neighbours. What is measured, and what decides, is therefore the country's generation mix. That grid draws 63.3% of its electricity from natural gas (2024). The detail: natural gas 63.3%, oil (fuel oil, diesel) 34.5%, solar 1.8%. Fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) account for 97.8% of it. A kilowatt-hour there weighs 692 g of CO2, i.e. 1.5 times the world average (458 g), 2024 figure. Concretely: a 3 kVA rack, in a site with a PUE of 1.5, draws 35,478 kWh a year and therefore emits 24.6 tonnes of CO2 a year here. The same rack, same hardware, same PUE, would emit 16 tonnes on a world-average grid. The building has nothing to do with it: the country does.
Source: Ember / Energy Institute via Our World in Data, retrieved 2026-09-14. A site under a direct renewable purchase agreement may show a different balance: that is for the operator to declare.
No earthquake of magnitude 5 or above has been recorded within 200 km of Al-Khobar since 1970, according to the US Geological Survey's global catalog. This record covers 56 years, which is short on a seismic timescale: no recorded earthquake does not mean no hazard. It does not replace the statutory zoning, which alone binds construction.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, ANSS ComCat, retrieved 2026-09-14. Measured from the site's coordinates.
With a single listed site, Al-Khobar cannot support a disaster-recovery plan spread over two separate buildings within the same town. A second site remains necessary, and it is found in the nearby cities listed below. No Internet exchange point is listed here: traffic will run over transit bought from a carrier, which is billed by bandwidth. No rate is published by the operators in this city: pricing is on request, and we do not estimate it on their behalf.
The nearest site outside Al-Khobar is 84 km away, in Dammam (5 sites). Short distances matter: they drive the cost of a link between two buildings, and whether a backup site is workable.