Industry Findings: Oman’s digital agenda is prioritising local capability-building and green hosting, which shifts procurement toward vendors who can combine residency, energy-aware operations and government collaboration. The Oman AI & Digital Future Program (2024–2026) and related national project portfolios make clear that public buyers will prioritise suppliers able to deliver sustainable, on-island compute and linked skilling programmes rather than one-off external cloud deployments.
Industry Progression: The country turned policy into tangible capacity when Oman Data Park announced a phased green-energy project to power data-centre operations (first phase 1.4MW solar, announced Aug-2025), and the government announced an AI Zone development project to attract private partners (Nov-2025). These concrete infrastructure steps expand in-country hosting and provide clearer practical options for enterprises to run production ML workloads with lower energy and residency risk.
Industry Player Insights: Domestic vendors and national digital players are packaging these capabilities into production offers: Oman Data Park (green data-centre initiatives), Omantel (connectivity and cloud services), Knowledge Oasis Muscat (infrastructure campus) and the Ministry of Transport, Communications & Information Technology (MTCIT) partnerships are actively creating on-shore AI hosting, MLOps and skilling channels. Their coordinated moves—green powering of data centres and AI zone frameworks—give Omani customers validated, residency-compliant stacks and faster procurement pathways for government and commercial ML projects.