Saudi Arabia’s Water Transmission Company (WTCO) outlined a collaboration with Google Cloud to develop artificial intelligence, data analytics and digital innovation within the company. Its announcement, dated 6 September 2026, says the cooperation was presented during LEAP 2026. The page does not establish a separate calendar date for that conference announcement, so the date used here refers to the published source. The initiative centres on a framework for digital development within the water operator, with efficiency and a more data-driven operating environment among its stated aims.

WTCO says the partnership is intended to bring advanced AI capabilities into its core infrastructure and support initiatives within its digital transformation programme. It identifies scalable digital solutions, machine-learning models and automated workflows as elements of the approach. These are the announced areas of cooperation, rather than a list of specific systems already commissioned. The source does not describe a particular model, define a deployment schedule or quantify realised water or energy savings. The cooperation therefore concerns the direction of technology development, with individual applications still to be detailed.

The company’s operating responsibilities explain the infrastructure setting for this work. WTCO manages, develops, implements, operates and maintains water transmission, conveyance and storage systems across Saudi Arabia. It is wholly government-owned and was established in September 2019. Its corporate description links the business to the National Water Strategy and the Vision 2030 privatisation programme. WTCO also develops financing arrangements with private partners for transmission and strategic storage projects, while seeking to improve asset efficiency, control costs and maintain sustainable water services.

On its operations and maintenance page, WTCO describes seven water transmission systems spanning the Kingdom’s eastern and western coasts and branching towards beneficiary regions. The listed activities include monitoring and support, preventive and corrective maintenance, emergency preparation, worker and asset safety, and technical record-keeping. They illustrate the operational environment in which digital tools would be used; the Google Cloud announcement does not say that each activity has already been automated. The confirmed cooperation adds an AI and analytics development framework to an operator responsible for maintaining interconnected water infrastructure and continuity of supply.