{"id":1038125,"date":"2026-09-24T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038125"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:28:19","slug":"microsoft-plans-10-billion-plus-gulf-investment-with-focus-on-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/microsoft-plans-10-billion-plus-gulf-investment-with-focus-on-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft plans $10 billion-plus Gulf investment with focus on resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to invest more than $10 billion across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait between now and 2030, including in cloud and AI infrastructure, a senior executive said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The US tech giant is making digital resilience a key part of its strategy for the region as the Iran war rumbles on. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s investment reflects both its &#8220;ongoing build-out of infrastructure and also the expansion of operations in the region,&#8221; Vice Chair and President Brad Smith told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to invest more than $10 billion across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait between now and 2030, including in cloud and AI infrastructure, a senior executive said on Wednesday. The US tech giant is making digital resilience a key part of its strategy for the region as the Iran war rumbles on. Microsoft&#8217;s investment reflects both its &#8220;ongoing build-out of infrastructure and also the expansion of operations in the region,&#8221; Vice Chair and President Brad Smith told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038151,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038125\/revisions\/1038151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}