Discussions of Middle Eastern connectivity often focus on geography: a bridge between east and west, a key hub between global markets, and so on and so forth.

According to panellists at Capacity Middle East, this is already a given. The huge investment in data centres, driven by AI, national digitisation plans and data sovereignty, and increased service usage across business and society, means that traffic originating and consumed within the region is becoming just as important as the traffic flowing through it.