Abdulaziz Khattak

By Abdulaziz Khattak More than 30 engineers, operations managers, and technology leaders from across the GCC brought with them a question that is reshaping boardrooms from Riyadh to Abu Dhabi: What happens when a flowmeter becomes an entry point for a cyberattack?

By Abdulaziz Khattak The Middle East is positioning itself at the intersection of two of the most capital-intensive structural shifts in modern economic history: The global AI infrastructure buildout and the regional diversification of sovereign energy economies. This is in the backdrop of a burgeoning annual data centre investment worldwide that has surpassed $770 billion, and the race to secure compute capacity intensifies across every major market.

By Abdulaziz Khattak With data, more is actually merrier, or, at least, it can because increased volumes of data improve statistical confidence, help to smooth out anomalies, and enable more precise decision making. For decades, however, the amount of data that could realistically be used was constrained by human limitations. Analysts could only review so much information, and models were bounded by processing power and time.