The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies G42: $1.5B raised. 5 sources back the record.
Funding
$1.5B
Employees
25k
Overview
G42 is an Abu Dhabi technology holding company founded in 2018 and chaired by Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's National Security Advisor. Its group CEO, Peng Xiao, has built G42 into the anchor of the UAE's national AI strategy, spanning cloud infrastructure (Core42), analytics (Presight), healthcare (M42), satellite (Space42), and a controlling stake in Khazna Data Centers, the UAE's largest colocation operator. Mubadala is the majority sponsor; Silver Lake, Microsoft, and the Dalio Family Office are minority holders.
On the datacenter side, G42's exposure flows through Khazna, which is co-owned with MGX and Silver Lake and led by CEO Hassan Alnaqbi. Khazna runs a portfolio of hyperscale sites across the UAE (Abu Dhabi and Dubai clusters plus an announced Ajman AI campus) and has been retrofitting facilities such as AUH6 for GPU workloads. The flagship next-generation project is Stargate UAE, unveiled in May 2025 with OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Cisco, targeting a 5 GW campus in Abu Dhabi with a 1 GW first phase slated to come online in 2026.
G42's trajectory pivoted in 2024 when Microsoft made a $1.5 billion strategic investment, put Vice Chair Brad Smith on the board, and secured commitments that G42 would divest Chinese holdings and standardize on Azure. That deal reset the company as a US-aligned AI infrastructure vehicle for the Gulf and positioned it as the operating counterpart to MGX, the sovereign AI fund also chaired by Sheikh Tahnoun.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
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G42 on the deployment map
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Current leadership (6)
- Peng Xiao Group CEO, Group CEO and foundersecondary-verified
- Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan Chairmanreported, not verified
- Mansoor Al Mansoori CEO, G42 Internationalreported, not verified
- Ali Dalloul Group Chief Strategy Officer; CEO, G42 USreported, not verified
- Bashar AlRosan Group Chief Legal and Compliance Officerreported, not verified
- Hassan Alnaqbi CEO, Khazna Data Centers (G42's datacenter operating arm)reported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for G42.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
G42 on the data-center map
Every verified data center G42 operates that has a mapped coordinate (6 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
G42 data centers (7)
- G42 France Data CenterPalaiseau, Île-de-France, France · announced
- Khazna Abu Dhabi CampusAbu Dhabi, UAE · energized
- Khazna Ajman AJM1Ajman · announced
- Khazna Dubai CampusDubai Silicon Oasis, UAE · energized
- Microsoft-G42 Kenya Geothermal DatacenterOlkaria · announced
- Stargate UAE Abu Dhabi CampusAbu Dhabi, UAE · under construction
- G42 Abu Dhabi Data Center CampusAbu Dhabi, UAE · operating
AI data centers G42 operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
G42 in third-party press
Mentioned on (7)
Registry pages whose text names G42.
Companies (4)
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $1.5B
- Employees
- 25,000as of 2024-12-31(Company-reported group headcount across G42 operating companies, as of 2024)
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 27, 2026
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Sources (5)
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
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Methodology surface for G42.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning G42 from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Toku to host platform on G42 Core42 UAE cloud
The companies marked the agreement at a signing ceremony in Abu Dhabi on October 2.
포티투마루, 중진공 ‘사우디 파트너십 구축 지원사업’ 선정…중동 진출 본격화
에이전틱 AI 스타트업 포티투마루가 중진공의 '사우디 파트너십 구축 지원사업'에 선정되어 폐쇄망 독립 구동 가능한 LLM42·RAG42 솔루션으로 중동 시장 진출을 본격화한다.
Microsoft and G42 Accelerate UAE's Digital Future with Major Data Centre Expansion
Microsoft and G42 announced a 200-megawatt expansion of datacenter capacity in the UAE, delivered through Khazna Data Centers, as part of a more than $15 billion commitment.
Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi's G42 to accelerate AI development and global expansion
Microsoft announced a $1.5 billion strategic investment in G42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI technology holding company, deepening their partnership in AI infrastructure.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/g42.md
- RSS feed: /companies/g42/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/cd2ae1e8-3aa0-49ab-b4e4-494da9114b87
- Revision history: /companies/g42/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Video
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The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has partnered with the artificial intelligence company G42 to create automated gas pumps. It works with the help of scanners
Kiril Evtimov, chief technology officer of the company, explains why it chose to work "very closely" with its U.S. partners.
Launching today with its first of nine interconnected AI supercomputers, the Condor Galaxy system will reach a combined AI training capacity of 36 exaFLOPs. G4
TXAI is the first autonomous driving project executed on a public road in Abu Dhabi, bringing valuable experience and benefits to autonomous vehicles TXAI’s r
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At the core of G42 is a world-class AI research organisation. Today G42 (@g42ai) is one of the largest technology companies in the MENA region with its services
Check out what happens down at G42 Studios Personal Training Facility.
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AI just crossed a new milestone. G42 has announced it is officially recruiting AI agents into enterprise roles — meaning artificial intelligence systems can n
Our G42 Smart Nation team participated in the World Police Summit, the global meeting place for senior, international police and law enforcement officials and e
2025 was a landmark year of scale, momentum, and meaningful impact at G42. From pioneering responsible AI frameworks and advancing digital infrastructure to de
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When innovation met imagination, we stepped into the future of visibility. Our brand got featured on the world’s first floating 3D holographic display powered
Meet Fourier GR2, a next-generation humanoid robot designed to advance research in robotics and AI. With sophisticated control systems and real-time sensing, G
Reality vs attention
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Last computed: Oct 11, 2026