giant committed to invest up to US$500mil over a five-year period in the largest country in Western Asia.
STC and venture capital firm eWTP Arabia Capital first announced their partnership with Alibaba Cloud on Dec 28, 2020, when the Chinese firm also made its commitment to contribute to Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 – the country’s strategic framework to diversify its economy and reduce its dependence on oil.
In Saudi Arabia, the Alibaba joint venture’s data centres will help provide a wide range of public cloud services to help step up digitalisation initiatives by small and medium-sized enterprises and major companies across a range of industries. Alibaba Cloud, which offers cloud computing services in 25 regions around the world, recently reported that it turned in. The firm reported a 1.1bil yuan profit for the 12 months to March 31, its first such result since 2009.