The site
Read the land.
Power, water, climate, grid connection, regulation: every site is assessed before the first drawing.
MANIFESTO
We are from the North.We build for the sun.
Leadership forged by extreme conditions, from Canada’s polar cold to Arabia’s scorching deserts, from vast expanses of ice to oceans of sand.
EMIRATES · MIDDLE EAST · AFRICA
From the first megawatt to the first token.
Nordik.ai engineers, develops and operates data centres for artificial intelligence, from the Emirates to Africa.
Discuss a projectThe energy
Generate power on site.
Natural gas turbines generate electricity on site, backed by storage: power available day and night, with or without the grid.
The building
Raise the campus.
The Next Gen data centre rises from the sand bay by bay and grows with demand.
The intelligence
Switch on intelligence.
Closed-loop liquid cooling with zero water consumption, and 24/7 monitoring: the campus produces compute, day and night.
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WHAT WE DO
Five crafts, one campus.
Architecture
Weave every campus into its ecosystem.
The master plan starts from the land: relief, soils, water, sun, winds, landscape and wildlife.
- Master plan shaped by the land, and phasing
- Site selection: power, water, climate, connectivity
- Feasibility studies and social acceptance
- Native landscape and biodiversity
Engineering
Optimised for today’s demands, engineered for tomorrow.
Strategy, sites, feasibility: we inform the decisions that commit megawatts and years. Power, cooling, network and security: we engineer them all the way to the rack.
- AI and sovereign AI infrastructure strategy
- Electrical architecture and redundancy
- Cooling architecture, with zero water consumption
- High-density white space, security and compliance
- Technical due diligence for investors
- Support for tenders and procurement
Procurement
An expert who defends your interests.
We help your company secure better purchasing terms on the market, and represent it at every stage of the project. Our mandate and our remuneration are transparent: recommendations rest on your needs, your budget and your goals.
- Offers that are truly comparable
- The full cost, before you commit
- A negotiation that protects the full value of the contract
- Capacity verified before you sign
- One point of contact to move the project forward
Operations
Keep it running, day and night.
We help you run AI campuses as critical infrastructure: availability, efficiency and security, measured continuously.
- Data centre operation and maintenance
- Colocation and AI compute capacity
- 24/7 monitoring and incident management
- Energy and carbon management, with zero water use
- Physical security and compliance
Innovation
Reinventing the desert data centre.
Digital twins: we prove what makes compute possible in the heat. Prefabricated, factory-tested power and liquid cooling modules, and on-site power generation.
- Waterless direct-to-chip cooling
- Modular and edge data centres for Africa
- Power generated on site
- Digital twins and AI-assisted operations
- Cooling with zero water consumption
CONFIGURATOR
Compose your Next Gen AI data centre.
Change the power, the density and the energy: the building reconfigures before your eyes, from the electrical rooms to the data halls.
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- Rack rows
- 32
- Electrical rooms
- 14
- Generators
- 14
- Dry coolers
- 420
- Gas turbines
- 3
- racks in total
- 500
At 80–100 kW per rack, a few rows are enough: most of the building brings power in and takes heat out.
- Data halls
- Electrical rooms
- Transformers and generators
- Dry coolers
- Natural gas turbines
- Battery containers
- Solar field
Illustrative example: racks of 80 to 100 kW cooled by direct-to-chip liquid (25 kW with air); 7 m bays each holding up to six rows of 16 racks, a PDU room, a UPS and battery room and a transformer, a bay per generator; one generator per four megawatts plus one on standby, in a building next door; dry coolers on the roof; one building up to 50 MW, two beyond; one battery container per two megawatts, one gas turbine per 25 megawatts plus one on standby. Every project is sized to measure.
THERMAL MAP
Every climate, its answer.
From the Gulf coast to the Kenyan highlands, heat, humidity, dust and water change everything. Choose a zone.
Gulf coast
Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Doha · Kuwait City · Manama · Muscat
- Heat
- extreme
- Humidity
- extreme
- Dust
- high
- Water stress
- extreme
Energy
Exceptional sunshine; electricity drawn mostly from natural gas.
Design levers
- Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
- Closed-loop dry coolers sized for extreme heat
- Reinforced filtration against dust and salt air
Country pages
A qualitative reading, to be refined site by site.
SOVEREIGNTY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Sovereign, secure and eco-responsible hosting.
Lean, sovereign and frugal centres, and a dialogue with communities that begins before construction.
WATER
Zero water consumption.
Our campuses cool with a closed refrigerant loop: nothing is drawn, nothing evaporates. Even in the heart of the desert, compute does not cost a single drop of water to the places that host it.
0 litres of water consumed
Sovereignty
Data under the jurisdiction you choose
The campus stands where its users are: data and models remain under the jurisdiction of the country that entrusts them.
Dedicated, controlled infrastructure
Dedicated, secure and controlled capacity for sensitive workloads: sovereign AI, research, public services.
Transparent operation
Access, logs, indicators: the client keeps visibility and control of its infrastructure.
Sustainability
Energy
Generated on site by natural gas turbines, backed by storage and complemented by solar when the project allows.
Heat
Server heat is recovered whenever a use exists nearby.
Generators
Backup only: they start only when the supply fails, never for everyday power.
Noise
Acoustically insulated equipment, for neighbours and teams alike.
Acceptability
Never an afterthought: early information, independent studies, ongoing communication with authorities and communities.
RESILIENCE
When a site is hit, compute carries on.
Drones and missiles now target data centres. Nordik.ai audits and designs resilient AI data centres: protecting the facilities, preserving the data and keeping services running when a site is hit.
- Targets of warThis year, data centres have been struck in Ukraine, in Russia and in the Gulf.
- A few thousand dollarsThe price of a drone, against millions of dollars of disruption.
- Data lost for goodOne operator reported that data stored in a Gulf data centre was permanently destroyed by a strike.
Same attack, two architectures
IllustrationIllustration: the same drone attack strikes, on one side, a megacampus whose buildings all depend on one power and cooling yard, and everything stops; on the other, a network of four independent sites watched by radar: one site is hit, inference switches to the other sites and training resumes on another site from the last checkpoint.
One megacampus
Every building depends on one shared power and cooling yard.
- Compute available
- Services
- online
- Data
- on one site only
A network of independent sites
Each site has its own power, cooling and links.
- Compute available
- Inference
- online
- Training
- running
- Data
- replicated
Continuity of compute
Truly independent sites
Several buildings sometimes share the same dependencies: power, cooling, links. We check how independent each site really is.
Inference fails over
Inference services are prepared to switch to another site.
Training resumes
Large AI training runs call for their own backup and recovery strategy.
Six concrete commitments
Assess the risks before investing
Analysis of the site, the physical threats and the dependencies on power, cooling and telecommunications.
For youBuild the cost of resilience into the investment decision.
Design hardened facilities
Protection of critical buildings and equipment, compartmentalisation and limits on the spread of damage, with specialist engineers.
For youReduce the consequences of a localised incident.
Spread capacity across several sites
A modular, geographically distributed architecture, sized to the services that must keep running.
For youKeep operational capacity when a site becomes unavailable.
Secure power and cooling
Redundant supplies and circuits, suitable autonomy and maintenance that can isolate damaged equipment.
For youKeep essential functions running during a disruption.
Integrate aerial threat monitoring
Detection, alert qualification and response procedures, with specialist partners and the competent authorities.
For youLink physical security to day-to-day operations.
Organise a verifiable recovery
Isolated backups, replication, standby capacity and regular restoration and failover drills.
For youDemonstrate recovery times and acceptable data loss.
FIRST STEP
The resilience diagnostic
Compute capacity whose continuity is designed, funded and tested from the start, with measurable commitments for the scenarios chosen.
It delivers:
- A risk map
- Three costed improvement scenarios
- A prioritised programme of works
Then, as you choose: the design, the integration of partners, then monitoring and continuity drills over time.
For data centre operators, sovereign AI projects and investors, and for the banks, telecoms and public services that depend on them.
LIFECYCLE
From bare land to compute in service.
We step in at the stage you are missing, or we carry them all.
Phase 1
Strategy
Compute needs, sovereignty, budget, timeline.
Phase 2
Site and energy
Land, gas supply, grid connection, solar, water, permits.
Phase 3
Design and build
Prefabricated modules and critical power engineered with Watts Unlimited.
Phase 4
Commissioning
Integrated testing, ramp-up, handover.
Phase 5
Operation
24/7 monitoring, maintenance, measured efficiency.
CANADIAN ROOTS. GLOBAL REACH.
The proximity of a team.The reach of a world.
From Canada to the United Arab Emirates, we bring the same technical standards wherever your projects take us.