Microsoft to invest more than $10 billion in the Middle East by 2030
The plan follows separate commitments Microsoft has already made in the UAE and Saudi Arabia over the past year
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Microsoft plans to invest more than $10 billion in the Middle East by 2030, extending a build-out it has been assembling piece by piece across the region.
The company has already put substantial money into the area. In November 2025, Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion plan for the UAE running through 2029, according to Microsoft's own blog. That plan included a $1.5 billion equity stake in the AI firm G42 and covered more than $4.6 billion in AI and cloud data centre spending already deployed, with $7.9 billion more planned between 2026 and 2029. Microsoft also pledged to train one million people in the UAE by 2027, Bitget News reported. Separately, Microsoft said in August 2026 that its Saudi Arabia East data centre region would open in November 2026, according to Microsoft News Source EMEA.
Rivals are moving in the same direction. Amazon Web Services has committed $5.3 billion to build data centres in Saudi Arabia, according to Introl.
The new $10 billion figure lands against a backdrop of elevated geopolitical risk and energy supply concerns that have pushed up oil prices and led some of Microsoft's competitors to diversify their sourcing away from the region. Microsoft's move looks strategic and long-term rather than a wager on near-term calm. That leaves the read on it neutral: it shows confidence in the region's technology opportunity, but it does not settle the supply and security uncertainty that has been driving caution elsewhere in the market.