Mindstream plans 400MW sovereign AI campus in Jordan
Mindstream Energy is targeting up to 400MW of AI and digital infrastructure capacity in Jordan, adding another signal that sovereign compute is becoming a regional infrastructure priority.
The AI infrastructure race is expanding well beyond the usual US and Western European hubs.
What happened
Mindstream Energy announced plans for a Jordan-based AI and digital infrastructure platform targeting up to 400MW of capacity on a planned 245-acre campus in Al-Risha. The project is aimed at AI, high-performance computing and sovereign cloud demand across Jordan and the wider Middle East and North Africa region.
Why it matters
AI infrastructure is increasingly shaped by geography, energy access and national control over compute. A project at this scale would reflect growing demand for regional capacity that can support local data requirements and reduce dependence on infrastructure concentrated in a small number of global markets.
The bigger picture
Sovereign compute is becoming part of industrial policy. Countries and regions are starting to treat data centres, power supply and advanced computing capacity as strategic infrastructure, linking the AI race directly to energy systems, capital expenditure and geopolitical resilience.