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Saudi Arabia consults on a Global AI Hub Law letting foreign laws govern hosted data

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Source: Bird & BirdAlso reported by Clyde & Co

Saudi Arabia’s Communications, Space and Technology Commission opened a public consultation on a draft Global AI Hub Law, running from 14 April to 14 May 2025. The draft sets up three kinds of hub: private hubs for the sole use of a guest country under its laws by bilateral agreement, extended hubs where an operator hosts for itself or its subscribers under the guest country’s law, and virtual hubs run by local providers where foreign law governs the stored data.

Why it matters

Foreign governments and cloud providers weighing Saudi data centres could keep data under their home country’s law, a data-embassy model.

When
14 Apr 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0136
Who
Communications, Space and Technology Commission
Rules involved

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Bird & Bird and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Bird & Bird

Source copy: download the page as saved on 21 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0136: “Saudi Arabia consults on a Global AI Hub Law letting foreign laws govern hosted data.” wheresthe.ai, 14 Apr 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/sa-cst-draft-global-ai-hub-law-consultation-2025-04/ (source: Bird & Bird).

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