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Saudi ministry plans data centre expansion with developers

Tuesday 6 July 2021 | 14:01 CET | News
Saudi Arabia's ICT ministry has announced work to structure business principles for large-scale data centre development in several regions of the county, SPA reported. Investors have committed to expanding a series of neutral data centres, as the first batch among many expected under the plan.

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