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Under a multi-year agreement announced alongside HPE's third-quarter results, Oracle will put HPE Juniper routing and switching into its AI data centres globally. HPE issued Oracle warrants over its own shares as part of the deal, which is the unusual detail.
A $150m commitment to manufacture data-centre components in the Kingdom is small next to the halls being built. It addresses a different constraint from the one the megawatt figures describe.
The alfanar line in Riyadh moved to ProLiant Gen12 in the week before LEAP — the practical test of whether local manufacturing means current product or last year's stock.
Three Saudi software companies — ShaheenAI, MOZN and OmniOps — are founding software partners in HPE's localisation initiative, with Alnahil Computers as lead systems integration and deployment partner.
HPE and Intel plan to establish a Saudi Innovation Center at HPE's new offices in Riyadh, giving the companies' localisation programme a physical base for building and testing systems in the Kingdom.
HPE set out a Saudi Made, Developed, Deployed programme with Intel and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, widening a server-manufacturing initiative into locally built software and local deployment capability.