Tencent Cloud is reportedly planning to expand its data centre footprint in the Middle East in a bid to grow its cloud business outside of China. Tencent Cloud currently has one availability zone in Saudi Arabia, with customers including international food delivery firm Keeta, as well as several gaming companies. Ooreedoo’s data centre spinoff Syntys – which currently operates 26 active data centres in Qatar, Tunisia, Kuwait, Oman and Iraq – recently acquired two new data centres from hyperscale data centre operator Q Data QFZ in Qatar. Batelco by Beyon announced earlier this month this it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Bahrain-based Qareeb Data Centers to launch what they claim will be Bahrain’s first edge data centre. Kearney expects the number of data centres in the region to double between 2025 and 2030.