Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit will open two new data centres this week in Saudi Arabia, more than a year after the Chinese ecommerce giant committed to invest up to US$500mil (RM2.19bil) over a five-year period in the largest country in Western Asia.
Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s joint venture in the country, Saudi Cloud Computing Co, announced the infrastructure expansion at a launch ceremony last Sunday in Riyadh, the country’s capital, where the Chinese firm was represented by Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International president Selina Yuan. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.