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Fortifying Data Centres: Advanced Cybersecurity for Evolving Threats | Data Protection in Saudi Arabia

October 10, 2025

As data centre operations grow in scale and complexity, cybersecurity has become a cornerstone of reliable, resilient infrastructure. From hyperscale hubs to edge sites, evolving cyber threats demand proactive, adaptive strategies. Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation and rapid cloud adoption make robust cybersecurity essential to safeguard sensitive data, maintain uptime, and comply with regulatory standards.

Turning to Edge to Decentralise Data | Data Centre Growth in the Kingdom

September 25, 2025

As digital transformation accelerates, data no longer sits neatly in one place. The rise of AI, IoT, and smart city applications is driving a need for faster processing, local storage, and lower latency. Traditional, centralised data centres can’t always deliver real-time performance, especially across large geographies like Saudi Arabia. Enter edge computing: decentralising data to bring compute closer to the user, enabling faster decision-making and improved resilience.

Optimising Infrastructure for AI-Ready Data Centres

September 12, 2025

As AI adoption accelerates across industries, data centres are evolving into high-performance hubs capable of supporting massive computational loads. These facilities require more than just increased capacity; they demand smarter design, advanced cooling solutions, and flexible power strategies to meet AI’s demanding requirements. In Saudi Arabia, where giga-projects and hyperscale facilities are redefining digital infrastructure, building AI-ready data centres is both a challenge and an opportunity.

Cooling Smarter for AI Data Centres

August 28, 2025

AI workloads are reshaping the physical design of data centres, with next-generation chipsets creating unprecedented heat loads. Traditional air-cooling systems are reaching their limits, pushing the industry to adopt more efficient, scalable, and sustainable approaches to thermal management. In Saudi Arabia, where climate challenges compound energy demands, cooling innovation will be a critical factor in ensuring reliable, AI-ready operations.

Meeting Data Centre Power Through Clean Energy?

August 15, 2025

As data consumption surges across the globe, the power demands of data centres are rising at an unprecedented pace. With AI workloads, hyperscale facilities, and cloud proliferation intensifying this growth, the spotlight is on energy sustainability. Increasingly, data centres are expected not just to run efficiently, but to run clean, leveraging renewables or offsetting their emissions where direct use isn’t viable. In Saudi Arabia, where digital transformation meets bold sustainability targets, this challenge is especially urgent and full of opportunity.

How Are Data Centres Powering the Green Revolution?

July 17, 2025

Data centres are the backbone of today’s digital economy, but they are also some of the most resource-intensive infrastructure assets. With the rise of AI, IoT, and cloud computing, global data consumption is skyrocketing and so is the demand for energy and cooling. In response, operators and developers are rethinking how data centres are powered, built, and run. The result? A new generation of green, efficient, and AI-ready data centres shaping the future of the data centre built environment.