The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's National Data Centre will host the Data Centre Nation (DCN) Riyadh, 2025 event on January 21.

The Data Centre Nation (DCN) Riyadh is the essential gathering place for hyper-scale owners, investors, and enterprise data centre end users in the Kingdom to talk about the challenges and future of the data industry. The event will discuss sustainable ecosystems for large-scale data centres, engineering infrastructure requirements, sustainability goals, reporting requirements, and the latest innovations in Saudi Arabia's data centre industry, while also implementing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 for digital infrastructure pioneers. Remarkably, over 70 prominent speakers and more than 750 data centre decision-makers will likely participate in over 28-panel discussions at the event to debate the future of the data industries. Moreover, the Data Centre Nation (DCN) will address data centres' role in the Kingdom's strategy to attain net-zero carbon emissions for energy-intensive businesses, the rules governing the outsourcing of national data centres, and the necessity of off-grid data centres. Saudi Arabia has become one of the most desirable destinations in the Middle East, where the data centre industry is undergoing a significant transformation. The first significant expansion in the data centre sector was mainly focused on supporting financial institutions and telecom service providers, according to a recent Knight Frank report. Furthermore, the government's Vision 2030 project has played a major role in the growth of both local and international investment in the sector over the past several years, which has resulted in the development of new data centres. Saudi Arabia is the Middle East's fastest-growing data centre market, with live IT capacity increasing 29.7% to 109 MW since the start of 2022. Analysts predict the market's size to reach USD 2.17 billion by 2028 at a 13.5% CAGR. Read more: Saudi International Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Expo (SIDMC), 2025