March 12, 2026 Saudi Arabia
State-backed AI venture Humain has secured 211 land plots across Saudi Arabia for future data center expansion. In a recent statement to The Information, Humain’s CEO Tareq Amin said the firm’s strategy “is built on geographic diversity and multiple fiber-optic routes, which is possible because...
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November 25, 2025 Saudi Arabia
Center3 and Saudi ICT company Sahara Net have entered a strategic colocation partnership, under which Sahara Net will establish dedicated hosting services within Center3’s data center facilities across the Kingdom.“Our partnership with Sahara Net reflects Center3’s commitment to building an open...
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November 22, 2025 Saudi Arabia
Elon Musk’s xAI is partnering with Humain to build a 500MW data center in Saudi Arabia. As part of the agreement, xAI’s Grok models will be deployed in Saudi Arabia. A location for the first data center has not been revealed, but an announcement from the two firms said it will “become one of the...
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September 30, 2025 Saudi Arabia
ByteBridge has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi tech provider Naizak to form a data center business. The MoU is expected to lead to a joint venture based in Saudi Arabia, which is “designed to accelerate the growth of hyperscale clients and AI-driven data centers across the...
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May 19, 2025 Saudi Arabia
Qualcomm has signed a memorandum of understanding with Humain to develop AI data centers, hybrid AI across Edge and cloud, and AI chips which would cover facilities in Saudi Arabia and around the world.Humain and Qualcomm plan to develop and build AI data centers in Saudi Arabia, develop CPU and...
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July 27, 2024 Saudi Arabia
Grid Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Electricity-owned Dawiyat Integrated to build a subsea cable system connecting Greece to Saudi Arabia, and other major destinations...
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May 08, 2024 Saudi Arabia
Saudi firm DataVolt has broken ground on its debut data center which will offer 10MW via a $150 million investment. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan this week. DataVolt said the data center features a modular infrastructure design, allowing for scalable solutions able to accommodate various workloads...
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March 09, 2024 Saudi Arabia
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has started production at its new facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, manufacturing servers for the company’s ProLiant Gen11 portfolio. The company first announced this production site as a partnership between HPE and digital solutions provider Alfanar in February...
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December 04, 2023 Saudi Arabia
New Saudi firm DataVolt has revealed plans for a new data center campus in Uzbekistan and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Digital Technologies, the Ministry of Energy, and the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to develop...
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September 12, 2023 Saudi Arabia
DataVolt is collaborating with AquaTech Systems, an Indian firm specializing in water technology, to construct water-efficient data centers. The two companies revealed this week that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation and services in water conditioning and...
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September 05, 2023 Saudi Arabia
Huawei has announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The facility will reportedly support government services in the Kingdom, allowing for AI applications and language models in Arabic. Through the move, the Chinese tech giant will grow its online service offerings...
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July 19, 2023 Saudi Arabia
Tonomus, a digital corporation within the new Neom city in Saudi Arabia, opened a data center. Neom is a plan to build a massive new smart metropolis on the coast of the Red Sea in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk. The Public Investment Fund, the nation's sovereign wealth fund, owns 100...
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July 13, 2023 Saudi Arabia
Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) of Saudi Arabia has established a new data center subsidiary. This week, the company's board of directors announced the establishment of a wholly-owned data center business in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The subsidiary will focus on administering, operating, and...
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March 30, 2022 Saudi Arabia
Edgnex has broken ground on its facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it has announced. The data center, which will have a capacity of 20MW, is, according to the company, only the beginning of its expansion. Alongside this facility, the company will also develop 30MW to 40MW data centers in what it...
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February 15, 2022 Saudi Arabia
STC has announced the launch of its new data center in Qassim, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi telco’s new data center measures approximately 12,000 square meters. It was also inaugurated by the Governor of Qassim Region, Prince Faisal bin Mishaal bin Saud. STC posted on Twitter that it was happy that...
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February 08, 2022 Saudi Arabia
Quantum Switch Tamasuk (QST) has revealed plans to develop data centers with up to 300MW capacity for the Saudi Arabian government. The goal is to entice hyperscale customers to come into the country to host public sector data. Interestingly, it has already broken ground on two data centers. QST...
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February 04, 2022 Saudi Arabia
Earlier in the week, Neom announced more details surrounding the development of data centers it planned in the new city of Neom, Saudi Arabia. The firm said it would be developing the data centers in partnership with Ezdihar Advanced Company for Information Technology (EzdiTek). In addition, a...
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November 19, 2021 Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s new Neom city has revealed plans to have a hyperscale data center on a floating industrial district. Neom is a development project with the aim to develop a large smart city on the Red Sea coast in the Saudi province of Tabuk. Crown Prince and Chairman of the Neom Company Board of...
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October 18, 2021 Saudi Arabia
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia has announced that it is forming four cooperation initiatives to build hyperscale data centers. This announcement is part of its achievement of the Kingdom Vision 2030 goals, which envisions the country becoming an...
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October 05, 2021 Saudi Arabia
The General Authority of Competition in Saudi Arabia has reportedly given data centers in the new city-state of Neom, Saudi-Arabia, the go-ahead. This project will be a part of a joint venture between Neom and Fas Energy and will see the construction and operation of “sustainable”...
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