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center3 Announces Expansion of Khurais Riyadh Data Center to Drive
Growth and Innovation in the Region

technologies and is built to meet global services to our customers while meeting
hyperscalers requirements. The additional growing demand. Through this milestone,
capacity will allow center3’s customers to we also contribute to the regional data
scale their cloud services and other digital center industry’s development, which is
services faster and more reliably. This crucial for the Kingdom and the wider
expansion follows center3’s plan to build region’s digital transformation as it enables
new data centers across Jeddah, Riyadh, the localization of digital applications.”
Dammam, and other strategic locations The new developments at center3 are a
in the Kingdom to address its customers’ continuation of stc Group’s expansion in
center3, the leading digital hub and requirements for high availability, disaster scale and scope by providing its customers
provider of hosting and data services in the recovery, and scalability. The new facilities with a full ICT ecosystem through a
MENA region and an stc Group subsidiary, will feature operational standards that number of subsidiaries. center3 aims to
has completed a 9.6MW expansion of its support service-level agreements and key reach over 300MW of managed capacity
hyperscaler-grade data center Khurais performance indicators aligned with best- in the next few years, not just within
in Riyadh. The expansion enhances in-class international standards. Eng. Fahad Saudi Arabia but beyond as well. This
center3’s hosting capacity for customers AlHajeri, CEO of Center3, commented: operating model is well-aligned with stc
and accelerates the development of the “We are proud to announce the expansion Group’s “DARE” strategy and the Group’s
MENA region’s digital industry. The newly of our Khurais data center in Riyadh. We development plans to position Saudi Arabia
expanded data center features state- are committed to investing in the latest as a major digital hub for the MENA region.
of-the-art infrastructure and advanced technologies and providing exceptional

e& Backs Abu Dhabi Industry 4.0 Strategy

e& enterprise teamed with Abu Dhabi’s “underscores our dedication to empowering methods.” The UAE is preparing to host the
Department of Economic Development businesses to flourish in the digital era United Nations COP28 Climate Change
to accelerate the adoption of Industry while fostering environmentally responsible conference later this year.
4.0 technologies by local businesses,
targeting improvements in sustainable
manufacturing. In a joint statement, e&’s
business arm noted it will use its expertise
in areas including cybersecurity, IoT, cloud
computing and AI to help enterprises
digitalize their operations. The partners
claimed the deal is part of the UAE’s wider
strategy to solidify Abu Dhabi’s position as
the region’s “most competitive industrial
hub”, and a joint working group will be
formed to support the initiative. Under
the agreement, the pair will explore ways
to provide digital tools to aid sustainable
and efficient operations for industrial
enterprises, alongside publishing joint
studies and hosting workshops around
sustainable manufacturing. Alberto
Araque, CEO of IoT and AI at e& enterprise
said its partnership with the government

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