center3: ksa eastern 2

Located in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, the “KSA Eastern 2” data-centre facility operated by center3 is part of the company’s strategic expansion to build the Kingdom into a major digital-infrastructure hub. The Eastern Province offers advantages including proximity to major subsea-cable landings, oil & gas digitalisation demand, and strong governmental support under Saudi Vision 2030. center3 has noted that it is collaborating with the Eastern Province authorities to accelerate land allocation and development of data-centre capacity in the region.

By establishing this site, center3 is positioning Eastern Saudi Arabia as a key node for cloud, hyperscale and network-services infrastructure, offering both local and regional connectivity benefits across the MENA region.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• The facility forms part of center3’s broader target of delivering 1 GW of data-centre capacity by 2030 in Saudi Arabia. 
• Designed for hyperscale-class deployment, with carrier-neutral architecture and scalability built in from the ground up.
• The strategy emphasises dual-entry fibre pathways, redundant power feeds and modular expansion to support large footprints and variable rack densities.
• Situated in a region where Saudi Arabia is seeking to leverage its power infrastructure and favourable climate to optimise data-centre operations under the Kingdom’s national digital-transformation agenda. 

🔐 Security & Compliance

• The build-out adheres to international and regional best-practice standards in physical security, access control and operational monitoring (carrier-neutral provider models are central to center3’s proposition).
• With the Eastern Province development, centre3 has partnered with local municipal authorities to align with regulatory frameworks and infrastructure zoning for digital-infrastructure assets. 
• Designed to support enterprise-grade uptime, availability and resilience expectations, suitable for cloud providers, carriers and regulated-industry workloads.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Positioned to tap into Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving connectivity ecosystem, including submarine-cable landings, regional fibre routes and edge-compute corridors bridging Europe, Asia and Africa
• Carrier-neutral model enables multiple access paths, diverse fibre entry and choice of transit and peering providers — aligning with center3’s goal of offering flexible infrastructure to global cloud, content and network providers.
• With this Eastern Province site, customers benefit from latency-optimised connectivity within Saudi Arabia and to neighbouring regions, as well as scalable infrastructure designed for cross-regional workloads.

💼 Who It Serves

• Hyperscale cloud providers and global platform operators seeking to deploy large-scale infrastructure with growth potential in Saudi Arabia.
• Enterprises, SaaS providers and regional data centres needing a presence in the Gulf region with strong connectivity and alignment with Vision 2030 digital-infrastructure objectives.
• Carriers, ISPs and telecom-network companies building backbone, edge and interconnect capacity in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom.
• Companies with high-performance computing, content-delivery, gaming or data-analytics workloads requiring a resilient, scalable and carrier-neutral base in the Middle East.