Yeah that's how I read the article. It seems like Saudi Arabia is continuing to diversify their economy outside of oil and gas. Offering cloud services in the

Yeah that's how I read the article. It seems like Saudi Arabia is continuing to diversify their economy outside of oil and gas. Offering cloud services in the region provides a way in which they can continue to create value outside oil and gas. AWS have a datacenter in Bahrain and Azure is in the UAE so it's logical Google would choose an economically significant country in the region