Saudi Arabia’s AI Readiness: The Data Infrastructure Imperative

Multi-billion-dollar investments, national strategies, and rapid enterprise adoption power Saudi Arabia’s race to lead the global AI economy. But as organizations move beyond pilots, the Kingdom’s ability to scale AI now depends less on model innovation and more on the data quality, infrastructure maturity, and system interoperability.

Under Vision 2030, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has established one of the region’s fastest-growing AI ecosystems, supported by large-scale government investment, robust regulatory frameworks, and partnerships with global technology providers.

However, this latest white paper, Saudi Arabia’s AI Readiness: The Data Infrastructure Imperative, developed by MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East in collaboration with Pure Storage, reveals that the next phase of Saudi Arabia’s AI growth will depend on resolving a fundamental bottleneck: data and infrastructure readiness.