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DataVolt Oxagon AI campus

Oxagon, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia · NEOM / Oxagon market · location approximate to district level

DataVolt Oxagon AI campus is a data center project in Oxagon, Saudi Arabia, operated by DataVolt. It is under construction. It is planned for 360 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: moved to under construction on 31 August 2026.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
360 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
DataVolt
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Strong7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started
Your call. Will it be built?

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

How Saudi Arabia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Saudi Arabia.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: named funder, disclosed client (reported), dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

Announced as a net-zero AI factory. Stated AI purpose with no site-level cooling or accelerator disclosure. Liquid cooling stated by w.media on 2026-07-17. Seawater provides 100% of heat rejection; 70% liquid / 30% air cooling (DataVolt NEOM).

Access to AI chips

GradeGovernment-confirmed

A dated US government document names this project's operator, its parent, or a named funder as authorised to receive advanced computing items. Criteria.

Humain · Commerce Department authorisation of 2025-11-19 for up to 35,000 Nvidia GB300 accelerators, case by case, subject to security and reporting conditions with ongoing BIS monitoring. (2025-11-20) source

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

Phases

Phase 1 (DataVolt 360MW first phase of 1.5GW masterplan) · Under construction360 MW, target 2028
Humain co-developed tranche within phase 1 · Under construction100 MW, target 2028

Stage history

2025-02-10Announced · datacenterdynamics.com
2026-08-31Under construction · neom.com

Who is behind it

OperatorDataVolt · Colocation
Funder, EquityVision Invest
Funder, Joint venture partnerNEOM
Funder, Joint venture partnerHumain

Who uses the compute

Tenant · GPU cloudHumain · reported, unconfirmed

100 MW · First 100MW of the 360MW first phase, Humain-DataVolt collaboration, ground broken Sep 2026 · as of 2026-09-07

DCD reports that Humain and DataVolt broke ground on the first 100MW of the 360MW first phase of the Oxagon campus, with DataVolt as developer and operator and Humain's partnership expanded to 100MW; the campus targets 1.5GW on NEOM renewables. ArusGrid carries Humain only as a funder on this row; this is the compute commitment.

Source · Humain breaks ground on Neom's Oxagon data center (DCD, 2026-09-07)

Source · Saudi Arabia's Humain and DataVolt collaborate on data center development (DCD, 2025-11-07)

Tenant · GPU cloudNebius · reported, unconfirmed

Preliminary framework agreement as anchor customer for up to 50MW at Oxagon. MEED says the capacity is expected to be commissioned in stages from Q4 2027. · as of 2026-10-22

MEED's Oxagon project article, updated with its 22 Oct 2026 report, says Nebius signed a preliminary framework agreement for up to 50MW as an anchor customer. A framework agreement is not a binding lease.

Source · Humain and DataVolt start Oxagon data centre work (MEED, 2026-09-01)

Project team
Main contractorLarsen & Toubro · Sep 2026 Reported source ↗
Main contractor on the first 100MW data centre of the 360MW phase 1 at Oxagon
Land
LandlordOxagon (NEOM) · leased · Feb 2025 Reported source ↗
Oxagon to lease land and provide infrastructure under $5bn agreement
LandlordOxagon (NEOM) · leased · Mar 2025 Reported source ↗
Oxagon will lease the land to DataVolt and provide infrastructure support. MEED on 2026-09-01 says the project uses Oxagon pre-zoned industrial land.
LandlordOxagon (NEOM) · 350,000 sqm · leased · Apr 2025 Reported source ↗
MEED gives the site as 350,000 square metres. Oxagon leases the land to DataVolt under the February 2025 agreement.
Power supply
Power allocation or planFeb 2025 Confirmed source ↗
NEOM states the facility will be entirely powered by renewable energy. Supplier and contract not named. · Oxagon provides infrastructure support under the agreement. · Applies to the whole campus.
Own generationDataVolt (planned on-site battery storage and gas turbines) · Apr 2025 Reported source ↗
Main supply planned from NEOM region solar and wind. Gas turbines can run on green hydrogen if needed. · Backup plan stated by Oxagon: large-scale battery storage for stability and gas turbines for redundancy, giving up to 48 hours of autonomous operation, at Tier 3 redundancy. This is a design plan, not a built plant. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
WaterSeawater for cooling · Seawater (heat rejection) Reported source ↗
seawater used for heat rejection, not stated as desalinated
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling Reported source ↗
Seawater provides 100% of heat rejection; 70% liquid / 30% air cooling (DataVolt NEOM)
WaterLG Electronics Reported source ↗
MOU only.
Cooling Reported source ↗
DataVolt signed an MOU with LG Electronics in September 2025 to supply cooling systems.
Cooling Reported source ↗
MEED Projects lists cooling as advanced liquid cooling, with a power density of 50kW per rack and custom AI-optimised racks. It does not say whether this is direct-to-chip or immersion.

Sources

  1. DataVolt plans 1.5GW data center campus in Neom's Oxagon (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-02-10)
  2. HUMAIN partners with DataVolt to jointly develop 100MW of a 360MW AI data center project in NEOM (NEOM, 2026-08-31)
  3. DataVolt and HUMAIN break ground on first AI data center in NEOM (W.Media, 2026-08-31)
  4. Humain breaks ground on Neom's Oxagon data center (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-09-07)
  5. HUMAIN and DataVolt to develop 100MW of AI-ready data centre (Middle East Construction News, 2026-09-03)
  6. Saudi Arabian data center firm races to export compute from NEOM (Semafor, 2026-09-07)
  7. Humain and DataVolt start Oxagon data centre work (MEED, 2026-09-01)
  8. LG Taps Middle East Growth With NEOM Oxagon AI Data Center Partnership (LG Electronics, 2025-09-08)
  9. Oxagon discloses capacity of data centre phase (MEED, 2025-04-29)
  10. Humain and DataVolt start Oxagon data centre work (MEED, 2026-09-01)
  11. Nebius signs on for 50MW at Neom's Oxagon data center in Saudi Arabia (BeBeez International (republishing DatacenterDynamics), 2026-10-22)
  12. DataVolt/ NEOM - NEOM City: Oxagon: AI Data Center Campus (MEED Projects, 2026-09-15)
  13. Nebius agrees Neom AI data centre capacity deal (MEED, 2026-10-22)
  14. Oxagon discloses capacity of data centre phase (MEED, 2025-04-29)
  15. Enowa completes energisation of primary substation at Oxagon (TradeArabia, 2026-10-30)

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