Saudi Arabia · Gulf Cooperation Council

AL NASLAA

Digital Infrastructure
The AI factory, engineered in the Gulf.

One company that designs, builds, and operates the physical and intelligent infrastructure behind AI, from edge nodes to sovereign-scale campuses.

Modular BuildPrecision MEP Mission-Critical DeliveryBrick OS
Why Al Naslaa

One stone. A perfect split. Still standing after 400 million years.

The Al Naslaa rock in Tayma, Saudi Arabia, is a single sandstone monolith cleaved by a razor-straight fissure so precise it looks laser-cut. Each half balances on its own pedestal, neither collapsing nor closing. It is nature's own feat of engineering.

Two halves, one stone

Physical build and AI intelligence, split by discipline, united as one company.

Engineered precision

The impossible cut is our standard: modular, tender-ready, manufactured accuracy.

Built to endure

Mission-critical infrastructure designed for the Gulf and to run for decades.

The Moment

The Gulf is building its digital economy, and AI needs a body.

Compute demand is exploding while the region pivots from oil to digital. Vision 2030, sovereign-AI mandates, and data-residency rules are pulling infrastructure onshore. AI is energy- and heat-constrained, yet the Gulf has what it needs most: abundant cheap power and the capital to deploy at scale.

Sovereign mandate

Vision 2030 and national-cloud strategies require compute and data in-region, which favors local operators.

Energy advantage

Power at ~$0.05–0.06/kWh plus a solar build-out turns a global cost problem into a regional edge.

Capital is ready

PIF, Mubadala, MGX and global infra investors are actively funding digital infrastructure across the GCC.

Speed wins

Modular, prefabricated delivery compresses build time from years to months, matching demand.

The GCC Opportunity

$93 billion in projects. Supply that can't keep up.

Across the six GCC states, the data-center market is compounding at ~18% a year, while vacancy in the core hubs is near zero. Demand is outrunning supply.

GCC Data-Center Market Value · USD Billions
~18.2% CAGR (2024–2030). Sources: JLL / Knight Frank / Mordor / Research and Markets.
174+
major projects active or planned across the six states
$93B+
combined value of the regional pipeline
~3.5 GW
pipeline vs. ~850–900 MW live today
<2.4% / ~1%
vacancy in the UAE & Qatar: pricing power

The edge is the fast lane, and it's underbuilt.

Hyperscalers and sovereign programs chase 50–100 MW+ mega-sites. That leaves the distributed 1–10 MW edge layer wide open: closer to users, faster to deploy, and growing faster than the market. We start there, and then scale to campus.

~16.4%
edge CAGR, faster than the overall market
$401M → 1.68B
ME edge data-center market, 2025 → 2035
< 20 ms
latency real-time AI, 5G/MEC & fintech require
Country Strategy

Six markets. One platform.

Saudi Arabia anchors the volume; the UAE sets the pace; the rest add reach, redundancy and data residency.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia HQ · VOLUME

  • 6.6 GW national target by 2034 · stc center3 → 1 GW
  • HUMAIN sovereign-AI program · NEOM & giga-projects
  • 480 MW "Hexagon" Riyadh · PIF-backed, CCSEZ incentives

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates PREMIUM HUB

  • >414 MW live · >1.4 GW pipeline (Stargate UAE)
  • Vacancy <2.4% → premium pricing power for new supply
  • Subsea landings, smart cities, hyperscaler pull

🇶🇦 Qatar

~1% vacancy · cheap, reliable power · LNG & industrial AI, data localization.

🇴🇲 Oman

Subsea landings (Salalah, Muscat) · free zones, 100% ownership · low competition.

🇰🇼 🇧🇭 Kuwait & Bahrain

Redundancy & cross-border low-latency · edge for local government & enterprise.

What We Do

One company. One platform. Full accountability.

Most AI-factory projects are stitched together from a modular vendor, an MEP contractor, an integrator, and a software firm. That means four contracts and four blame lines. Al Naslaa is all four, unified.

1

Design

Reference-engineered, tender-ready campus and edge designs.

2

Build

Modular fabrication, precision MEP, mission-critical delivery.

3

Operate

Brick OS runs the plant: observed, simulated, optimized.

4

Improve

Performance rises after commissioning, not just at handover.

Our Capabilities

Four capabilities. One integrated stack.

What used to require several specialist firms now lives inside Al Naslaa as one delivery system: the physical trades unified with the software that runs them.

Modular Build

  • Structural modular systems & enclosures
  • Hardened, high-security infrastructure
  • Precision-engineered & scalable

Precision MEP

  • HVAC, power, electrical & controls
  • Fire, safety & water systems
  • 40+ years of MEP expertise

Mission-Critical Delivery

  • In-house fabrication & coating
  • Secure supply chain
  • 90–120 day deployment

Brick OS

  • AI operating system: DCIM + BMS + twin
  • ML/RL optimization of the plant
  • Static facility → managed platform

Brick OS is Al Naslaa's product: the intelligence half of the monolith.

The Product

The AI Factory: one platform, five layers.

A repeatable AI-factory stack, sold as a full campus, a phased expansion path, or a distributed edge network. Not isolated boxes, software, or EPC packages.

01

Compute

GPU racks, busbar distribution, whitespace topology, network-ready halls.

02

Cooling

Cold plates, CDUs, prefabricated manifolds, secondary loop, dry coolers.

03

Power

A/B/C feeds, hybrid redundancy, switchgear, transformers, energy routing.

04

Energy

Grid, solar, battery storage, dispatch logic, cost & resiliency layer.

05

Control

Brick OS: digital twin, DCIM, monitoring, optimization, simulation.

The commercial outcome: sell modular AI capacity as a system: a product, priced and repeated, not a bespoke project.

Product Family

One product family, across the entire demand curve.

Start at the edge for speed and recurring revenue; scale into campuses for anchor tenants and utilization. The same modular stack, from 2 MW edge blocks to 100 MW campuses.

2 MW
Edge POD-2Distributed · low-latency
10 MW
POD-10Regional AI cluster
50 MW
POD-50Sovereign training block
100 MW
POD-100Hyperscale campus
ProductIT CapacityRack DensityRacksPrimary Use Case
Edge POD-21–2 MW32–100+ kW8–16Inference · airport / metro edge · mini-nodes  BEACHHEAD
POD-1010 MW150–250 kW32–48Regional AI cluster / single-hall deployment
POD-5050 MW200–350 kW120–160AI cloud region / sovereign training block
POD-100100 MW350–400 kW250–320Large training campus / phased mega-site  SOVEREIGN

Sold as owned campuses, leased deployments, or embedded whitespace · air-cooled ~1.3 PUE · direct-to-chip ~1.2 PUE.

Layer 05 · Control

Brick OS: a control plane for energy-constrained compute.

The differentiator isn't only what gets built; it's how the AI factory is observed, modeled, optimized, and operated over time. Brick OS turns a static facility into a continuously improving platform.

Observe

Unified DCIM + BMS, alarms, power chain, telemetry, asset & capacity visibility.

Model

Digital twin, what-if planning, thermal simulation, redundancy & failure analysis.

Operate

Closed-loop orchestration across compute, cooling, power and reporting.

Optimize

ML/RL control of cooling, pumps, setpoints, energy dispatch & compute efficiency.

15–30%
average cooling-cost reduction via dynamic optimization
10–20%+
compute-node energy savings, real-time power management
>60%
energy savings in the illustrative RL example
~1.2
reference PUE at direct-to-chip density (~1.3 air-cooled)

Illustrative figures from Brick reference models · combines LSTM forecasting with tuned DDPG / TD3 / SAC reinforcement-learning agents.

The Power Moat

Power is the moat: behind-the-meter and hybrid sites.

The GCC has abundant, cheap energy, yet grid connection and substation lead times still bottleneck large and edge sites. We bypass the queue with behind-the-meter generation, and we keep the grid for redundancy.

Speed to power

On-site generation bypasses multi-year grid and substation queues.

Firm 99.999% uptime

Dedicated generation delivers always-on power, not grid-dependent reliability.

Cost control

Flare and associated gas turn a waste liability into low-cost, on-site fuel.

Sovereignty & ESG

Reduced external dependency, and a clear path to solar, storage, and SMRs.

Gas + CHP + flare gas · NOW

Fastest speed-to-power; leverages GCC gas abundance.

Fuel cells · NOW

Clean, modular, efficient on-site power.

Solar + battery storage · NOW

World-class irradiance; strong ESG appeal.

Small modular reactors · 2030+

Always-on, carbon-free baseload at scale.

Why This Wins

A Crusoe / NVIDIA-class story, engineered in the Gulf.

Localize the stack

Regional fabrication & assembly reduce dependency on fragmented vendor chains, giving a stronger sovereign narrative for critical-infrastructure buyers.

Sell capacity, not projects

Reuse one product stack across edge nodes, regional pods, and campuses: faster sales cycles, a clearer proposition, and repeatable economics.

Operate with intelligence

Brick OS sits on top of the physical plant; performance improves after deployment, with differentiated PUE, uptime and energy economics.

Al Naslaa is positioned to become the Gulf's integrated AI-factory platform: modular delivery, mission-critical engineering, sovereign-ready deployment, and the operating layer to run high-density AI at scale.

Business Model

How we make money, and why the returns compound.

One engineered product family, four ways to monetize it.

Owned campuses

Build-own-operate; wholesale colocation revenue per kW / committed capacity.

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Build-to-suit / leased

Anchor-tenant deployments and leased capacity on long-term contracts.

Embedded whitespace

Modular capacity dropped inside third-party facilities.

Energy-linked compute

Capacity paired with storage & dispatch, sold as energy-linked infrastructure.

Reference Unit Economics
$8–12M
per MW · edge, liquid-ready
15–25%+
target IRR at strong utilization
40→80%+
utilization ramp, Yr 1 → stabilized
3–5 yrs
typical site payback
50+ MW
portfolio target, 5–7 years

Reference/illustrative economics, to be confirmed by site-level modelling. Funding mix: equity (investors / SWFs), project debt, and anchor-tenant pre-commitments.

Financials · Illustrative Base Case

Revenue to ~$166M by Year 5. Break-even in Year 2.

A conservative plan: modular edge blocks first, then scaling to campus. Figures are illustrative and benchmark-based.

Revenue & EBITDA · USD Millions
~$166M
Year-5 revenue
~$80M
Year-5 EBITDA (~48% margin)
Year 2
EBITDA break-even
~$1B
cumulative CapEx, 100 MW

The Ask: $75M primary raise, closing 30 September 2026.

Seed / Series A equity to build the first 5 MW in the UAE and reach break-even. A ~$25M pilot tranche can close first.

Talk to us

Illustrative only; not a forecast or an offer of securities. Requires site-level modelling.

Phased GCC Rollout

Quick wins first. Then scale.

Phase 1 · UAE

Premium edge

Launch 2–5 MW edge blocks into the tightest-supply market, capturing premium margins from <2.4% vacancy.

Phase 2 · KSA + Oman

Volume & incentives

Add edge plus mid-size / JV campuses, with land, power, and free-zone / CCSEZ advantages.

Phase 3 · Broader GCC

Reach & scale

Qatar, Kuwait & Bahrain edge nodes for redundancy; then scale successful models to campus.

Go-to-Market · Target Customers

The customers we are building relationships with now.

We land with telcos and enterprises for fast pilots and recurring revenue, and we scale with hyperscalers and sovereign programs for volume.

Telcos & carriers · HIGH PRIORITY

e& · du · STC · Omantel · Ooredoo

5G / MEC edge nodes and low-latency distributed compute.

Enterprises

BFSI · manufacturing / IoT · healthcare · media

Low-latency processing, data residency, and Industry 4.0.

Government & sovereign

G42 · SDAIA · HUMAIN · NEOM

Sovereign AI, compliance, and reliable behind-the-meter power.

Scale with hyperscalers · VOLUME & PARTNERSHIPS

Edge offload, overflow, and low-latency inference beyond their large campuses.

Microsoft

$15B+ UAE via G42 / Stargate

AWS

$5.3B+ KSA · Bahrain region

Oracle OCI

NEOM & Vision 2030 cloud

Google Cloud

UAE & KSA cloud regions

Named companies are targets, not confirmed relationships.

Partnership Strategy

The connective tissue of the region's AI infrastructure.

Al Naslaa is built to sit at the center of the Gulf's digital-infrastructure ecosystem: an AI-adjacent platform that plugs into capital, connectivity, energy, and demand.

Sovereign & institutional capital

PIF · Mubadala · MGX and global infrastructure investors.

Telcos & connectivity

e& · STC · Omantel for 5G / MEC edge and fiber.

Energy & utilities

ADNOC · ACWA Power · Masdar for gas, flare gas, and solar.

Hyperscalers & anchor tenants

Cloud, sovereign-AI programs and enterprises as anchor demand.

Technology & supply chain

GPU, cooling and switchgear partners integrated into our stack.

Government & special zones

Vision 2030 bodies, CCSEZ and data-residency frameworks.

Named partners are illustrative targets, not confirmed relationships.

Leadership

The team to build the next layer of AI infrastructure.

GL

Gary LaDrido

FOUNDER · CAPITAL MARKETS

Founder of Al Naslaa. Leads capital formation and investor strategy, and structures the platform's financing and growth capital across the Gulf.

MB

Michel Berdkan

MANUFACTURING & DELIVERY

Regional manufacturing & EPC delivery; design-for-manufacture, supply chain, deployment speed.

SS

Sebastian Sheng

AI, ENERGY & STRATEGY

Architect of Brick OS; infrastructure finance, energy systems, AI-native ops. Ex-J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley, $5B+ executed.

SD

Steven J. Davis

INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION

Data-center domain leader; founder of InfraMercs, STT GDC & DCAP.ph; ex-CTO Exodus Communications.

How We Engage

One partner. One platform.

Built to last.
01 · 8–12 weeks

Platform Design Sprint

Product-definition & reference-design engagement to lock topology, power, CapEx and supply chain.

02 · 2–10 MW

Pilot Deployment

Deploy an edge node or modular block to validate thermal architecture, software and the playbook.

03 · Long-term

Anchor Campus / JV

Progress into a flagship campus, an owner-operate model, or a sovereign joint venture.

Raising $75M, targeting close by 30 September 2026.

Gary LaDrido · Founder gary.ladrido@gmail.com +1 (917) 275-7723
Important Disclosures

This website is provided for informational purposes only and is strictly private and confidential. It does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, and it is not investment, legal, tax, or financial advice. It contains forward-looking statements about markets, projections, timelines, capacities, costs, and returns; these rest on current assumptions, they involve risks and uncertainties, and they may change materially. Market figures are drawn from third-party sources believed to be reliable, and they have not been independently verified. Financial and performance figures are illustrative references rather than guarantees, and they require site-level modelling. Named companies, partners, and investors are illustrative targets; they do not imply any existing relationship, endorsement, or commitment.