David Saunders
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
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We've got to build these AI zones in lots of different locations around the country.
They've also said,
and realised, and this is really important, that they can't just allocate a piece of land within an AI zone, they have to develop power onto that land and get power into that land in order to support the kind of demand that we're seeing from AI data centres.
Well, they're definitely investing, they're definitely building infrastructure.
The governments are very heavily involved in the Middle East region, so if the government thinks it's a good idea and decides to
put its weight behind an initiative, whatever that be, even even outside the data center industry.
And you've seen it in sort of airports and port infrastructure and various other industries as well.
Then it usually happens and it usually happens on a really good scale and in a very impressive manner.
The market is still emerging in the Middle East, but the rate of growth has been quite exceptional in five years.
The two major markets in the Middle East are Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Both of them are relatively small compared to global markets, but there are also some plans to develop multi-gigawatt campuses there.
And if you look at where the Middle East is located, so you've got Saudi Arabia, you've got UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, etc., and Israel as well, and Turkey.
They're very much looking at where they are geographically and say, hey, we as a region can become the AI hub that joins up Asia and Europe and the Western world, if you like.
And we've seen that approach taken with their airport industries and their airline industries.
So they've developed enormous airports and they want to become the major hub between East and West, if you like.
They're trying to take the same approach with data centers as well.
And they're putting supporting infrastructure in place in order to do that.
So more subsea cables are coming in through the region, again linking up the Asia Pacific region to the European region to North America.
Sure, yeah.
Similar story, there's a lot of talk about natural gas in Europe as a source to develop power stations or energy centers that could support data centers.
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