SEATTLE: Executives from Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest data center provider and a key player in the global AI race, are eyeing opportunities nearly 10,000 km away in Saudi Arabia. In the last year, the Kingdom has taken its AI ambitions into overdrive, launching some of the most ambitious goals and investments in the technology anywhere, with over $40 billion earmarked for investment by 2030. A figure — and an opportunity — that has not gone unnoticed by big tech on the US West Coast.

Google Cloud and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund are taking a major step forward in their partnership by building and operating a global artificial intelligence hub in the…

SEATTLE: Executives from Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest data center provider and a key player in the global AI race, are eyeing opportunities nearly 10,000 km away in…