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Aramco Digital Dammam (GroqCloud region)

Dammam, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia · Dammam / Eastern Province market · location approximate to district level

Aramco Digital Dammam (GroqCloud region) is a data center project in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, operated by Aramco Digital. It is operational. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Aramco Digital
Corporate
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Verified

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed client (confirmed)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

19,000 Groq LPU accelerators are running in production as GroqCloud's second region globally. An actual deployment, not an inference from design.

Access to AI chips

GradeCommercial signal only

A chip-vendor partnership or US hyperscaler relationship has been announced, but no government document names anyone involved. Signal, not licence. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipYes

Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source

Stage history

2025-02-10Operational · groq.com

Who is behind it

OperatorAramco Digital · Corporate
Funder, EquitySaudi Aramco
Client, confirmedGroq
Build, land, power and water
Nothing found in public sources yet. Most contractors and utilities never name their data centre clients. Know who built it or where its power comes from? Tell us.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Saudi Arabia Announces $1.5 Billion Expansion to Fuel AI-powered Economy with AI Tech Leader Groq (Groq, 2025-02-10)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to [email protected]. Dataset updated 2026-09-26.