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title: "Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/mcit"
language: "en"
type: "GovernmentOrganization"
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# Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)

The Saudi ministry responsible for communications and the digital economy.

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) appears in 4 stories in the Cicada archive, from 2023 to 2026.

## Every story, oldest first

- 2023-02-06 — [Oracle commits $1.5bn to Saudi cloud regions, including Riyadh](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/oracle-1-5bn-saudi-cloud-2023): Oracle signed a memorandum with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to invest $1.5 billion in the Kingdom, adding a Riyadh public cloud region to its Jeddah region and a planned NEOM region.
- 2025-06 — [MCIT and SDAIA issue National Data Center Strategy targeting 1.5GW by 2030](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/national-data-center-strategy-2025): In June 2025 the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) launched the National Data Center Strategy, targeting up to 1.5 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2030, one of the Middle East's largest planned national builds.
- 2026-03 — [Operational data center capacity reaches 467MW in Q1 2026, per official figures](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/datacentre-capacity-467mw-q1-2026): Saudi Arabia's operational data center capacity reached 467 MW in the first quarter of 2026, up from 68 MW in 2021, according to official Saudi figures cited by Fortune in September 2026.
- 2026-08-31 — [LEAP 2026 closes with nearly $15bn in AI and infrastructure announcements](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap26-opens-riyadh): The fifth LEAP, under the theme 'Into New Worlds', ran from 31 August to 3 September 2026 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham, and closed with nearly $15 billion in launches, investments and agreements, according to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and Asharq Al-Awsat, citing the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

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