STC Unveiled Largest Data Center, across the Gulf

Kingdom’s top digital enabler, STC, disclosed the third phase of the data center project, which is the largest project to create data centers, in the region.

The next phase intends to increase space and capacity, while also speeding up the Kingdom’s digital transformation aspirations.

It also offers global data dissemination and energy-improvement solutions that are in line with the Green Saudi Initiative for Environmental Sustainability’s goals.

The third phase of the enhanced data centers is a planned computing-information technology capacity with a maximum capacity of 125 MW, with a dedicated land area of more than 180,000 square meters as a part of STC’s broader ambition and comprehensive strategy to provide the best digital and communication services.

And the third phase complies with STC’s broader ambition and comprehensive strategy to provide the best digital and communication services, and the third phase complies with STC’s broader ambition.

The latest communication technologies are employed to enable a fluid flow of digital data and information traffic between different technological facilities to maintain business continuity.

Thanks to Hyper-scaler standards that provide a highly adaptable infrastructure. Within the following few months, the third phase should be completed.

The data centers built by stc comprise of 16 data centers with 17,000 storage units, serving 8 parallel locations across six cities, making this the region’s largest data center building program.

Across the key cities of Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam, the project will create critical digital availability zones, that will provide an integrated set of secure services, global service management, and asset protection measures.

The capabilities, functionality, operational integrity, and efficiency of data centers are all planned and built to the highest standards. This investment reaffirms STC’s position as a regional leader in digital transformation.

In addition to all the requirements of an ambitious business, the third phase strives to increase evaluation time, customer experience, self-service capabilities, new collaboration models, and focus on faster, smarter, and better-quality services.

STC’s investment in data centers is a pioneering move in improving the concept of time for value and the customer experience, and it demonstrates the company’s leadership role in moving forward with digital transformation.

The global data centers are also part of STC’s overall plan, which aims to strengthen digital technologies and communications services in the Kingdom’s major cities, enhancing the supply of digital services, security services, and world-class service management.

“We have big ambitions for the group’s data centers that will implement the infrastructure in the region,” said Engineer Haitham Al-Faraj, Chief Technology Officer at STC.

To meet the need for international calling, STC aspires to be the leading data platform.

We intend to expand and equip our existing centers in the future to fulfill the growing demands of our clients.

One of the options we provide is a central solution that replicates a standardized data center design and can increase existing digital power capacity to over 300MW by promptly responding to local market demand.”

“Data centers placed the STC group in the number one digital position,” said Mohammed Al-Abbadi, CEO of STC’s Carriers and Operators Sector.

These centers support Vision 2030’s goals by assisting the Kingdom in becoming a digital hub and attracting both domestic and foreign direct investments.

In a carrier-neutral environment, the digital hub will be provided as a single experience for all sectors, including local, regional, and global, to enable a locally hosted ecosystem that provides the greatest customer experience. Future growth will be fueled by the transition to Cloud 4.0 and, thereafter, Industry 4.0″.

“These centers will be enabled by the wide national, regional, and global communication networks, which provide high flexibility and diversity, and which STC owns and invests in as a leading regional link platform, developed as a distinctive model for benefiting from infrastructure and services,” Al-Abadi added.

The project will empower the workers as well as small and medium-sized businesses, while also supporting local industries and allowing for digital innovation.

The data centers will enable STC to create ground-breaking digital products and services like never before, as well as contribute to the Kingdom’s development, as a key worldwide technical hub.