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title: "Microsoft"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/microsoft"
language: "en"
type: "Corporation"
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# Microsoft

US technology company.

Microsoft appears in 4 stories in the Cicada archive, from 2023 to 2026.

## Every story, oldest first

- 2023-02-06 — [Microsoft announces $2.1bn for a hyperscale cloud in Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/microsoft-2-1bn-cloud-leap23): At LEAP 2023 Microsoft announced $2.1 billion for a hyperscale cloud in the Kingdom.
- 2023-02-06 — [LEAP23 in Riyadh announces about $9bn of tech investments](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/leap23-opens): LEAP 2023 ran from 6 to 9 February 2023 in Riyadh and announced about $9 billion of investments; a later organizer recap puts the total at more than $9.5 billion.
- 2024-09-10 — [Third Global AI Summit draws 30,000 delegates to Riyadh](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/gain-2024-third-edition): The third Global AI Summit, organized by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), ran from 10 to 12 September 2024 and reported more than 30,000 delegates, more than 450 speakers from 100 countries, 150 sessions, more than 25 launches and more than 80 agreements and MoUs.
- 2026-02-11 — [Microsoft confirms Saudi Arabia East cloud region for Q4 2026](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/microsoft-saudi-region-q4-2026-confirmed): Microsoft confirmed in February 2026 that customers will be able to run workloads from its Saudi Arabia East datacenter region in the Eastern Province from the fourth quarter of 2026, with three availability zones and integration into its network of more than 70 Azure regions.

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