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Oracle is adding data centres in the UAE and Saudi Arabia

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Source: The National

Oracle is opening additional data centres in the UAE and Saudi Arabia to keep up with rising AI adoption, Cormac Watters, executive vice president of applications for Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa, told The National at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas. Oracle has cloud regions in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah and Riyadh, and has announced plans for one in Saudi Arabia’s Neom megaproject. Watters said Oracle added a couple of new data centres over the last six months and expects more in the next six months.

Why it matters

Watters said sovereignty, including where data is stored, is now the first topic in customer conversations in the region, and that Oracle declines to say where its new data centres are because of the geopolitical situation, after Iran targeted Amazon data centres in the UAE and Bahrain in March.

When
29 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0526
Who
Oracle; Cormac Watters

Summary written with AI by wheresthe.ai, from The National. Checked against the source on 29 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0526: “Oracle is adding data centres in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/ae-oracle-is-adding-data-centres-in-the-uae-and-saudi-arabia-2026-10/ (source: The National).

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