Countries / Asia-Pacific and Middle East

Oman

Name: Oman
Address: OM

Oman has had a personal data law in force since February 2023, a national AI programme to 2026, and sovereign-style Oracle cloud regions on government and operator sites.

Royal Decree 6 of 2022 on personal data protection entered into force on 13 February 2023 (Reported). The ministry publishes Executive Regulation 34/2024, including cross-border transfer controls; the older digest's statement that regulations had not been issued is superseded. Read the applicable transfer rules before choosing where to host personal data. A National Programme for AI and Advanced Digital Technologies was announced in September 2024 and runs through 2026 (Reported). Oracle regions operate with OICT Group and ITHCA Group, and Omantel opened a data centre at Salalah in 2024 (all Reported). No capacity figures or grid documents were found in that earlier pass.

AI policy and activity

The national programme sets an AI readiness ranking target and lists projects such as a national AI research centre and a local language model. The report read names no compute or data centre targets.

Power and grid

No power, grid or renewable document for Oman was read in this pass, so none is stated.

Data centres and compute

Data centres and compute
Site	Where	Status	Notes and source
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region at Oman Data Park OICT Group, Oman Data Park, Oracle	Oman (site not stated on the page read)	Operating	Reported. Oman Observer, 17 December 2021: first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region in the country, run from a Tier III certified data centre. No capacity stated. (source)
ITHCA Group second Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer ITHCA Group with Oracle	ITHCA Group data centre, Oman	Planned	Reported. Oman Observer on an agreement of 18 October 2022 for a second dedicated region alongside one already in production, for government systems with hardware kept under local control. Completion is not dated in the article, and we did not confirm it was delivered. (source)
Salalah Al Khadra Digital Yamna (developer)	Salalah, Oman (exact facility location not verified)	Planned	Primary, developer account checked 11 November 2026. Yamna's 9 November announcement, with a 5 November dateline, reports an IFC advisory agreement for this project. It covers sustainability and financing preparedness, including an indicative EDGE certification pathway and preliminary environmental, social and climate risk screening. Advisory work is not evidence of committed financing, achieved certification or available compute. Before planning a deployment, ask Yamna to confirm the hosting location, power, delivery milestones and service availability. Other country-wide claims retain their own dates. (source)
Omantel Salalah data centre Omantel	Salalah, Dhofar	Operating	Reported. Telecom Review: launch announced 22 August 2024, described as Omantel's second-largest data centre with links to more than 10 submarine cables. No capacity disclosed. (source)

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Personal Data Protection Law (Royal Decree 6 of 2022) Read the cited source	Law	In force from 13 February 2023	Reported. The Al Tamimi digest supplies the law's 13 February 2023 commencement date. Its older statement that executive regulations had not been issued is superseded by the official 34/2024 regulation linked below. This is not a complete current-law or workload-compliance assessment.
Personal Data Protection Law Executive Regulation (Ministerial Decision 34/2024) Read the cited source	Law	In force	Primary, official English text checked 11 November 2026. Chapter Eight, Articles 37 to 40, covers cross-border consent and its exceptions, national-security limits, protection by the external processor and the controller's protection-and-risk assessment. Check the applicable law, exceptions, later amendments and sector rules for your workload; a host's location alone is not legal clearance. No exact commencement date is assigned here.
National Programme for AI and Advanced Digital Technologies Read the cited source	Programme	In force from 23 September 2024	Reported. Telecom Review: announced 23 September 2024, runs through 2026 under Oman Vision 2040, replaces the 2022 executive programme, and lists a national AI research centre and Oman GPT. The report names no compute specifics. The date is the announcement date.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Oman: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/oman

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@misc{computefinder_countries_oman,
  title        = {Oman: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0053}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0053},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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