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AirTrunk and Humain Riyadh campus

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Riyadh market · location approximate to city level

AirTrunk and Humain Riyadh campus is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by AirTrunk and Humain. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. It is planned for 250 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
250 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
AirTrunk and Humain
Joint venture
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

MEED describes a hyperscale AI data centre housing GPUs for training and inference. No cooling spec or deployment source yet.

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 are published on the Methodology page.

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

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

Stage history

2025-10-28Announced · blackstone.com

Who is behind it

OperatorAirTrunk and Humain · Joint venture
Funder, EquityBlackstone
Funder, EquityCPP Investments
Funder, Joint venture partnerHumain

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2025-10US$3bn

The figure covers the whole campus.

Who builds it
BidderEl-Seif Engineering Contracting and Larsen & Toubro JV · Apr 2026 · bid submitted, result pending Reported source ↗
Commercial bid for construction of the 250MW Riyadh campus; bids due 4 May 2026
BidderFCC and Alfanar Projects JV · Apr 2026 · bid submitted, result pending Reported source ↗
Commercial bid for construction of the 250MW Riyadh campus; bids due 4 May 2026
BidderAlbawani and Orascom JV · Apr 2026 · bid submitted, result pending Reported source ↗
Commercial bid for construction of the 250MW Riyadh campus; bids due 4 May 2026
BidderNesma & Partners · Apr 2026 · bid submitted, result pending Reported source ↗
Commercial bid for construction of the 250MW Riyadh campus; bids due 4 May 2026
BidderJames L Williams · Apr 2026 · bid submitted, result pending Reported source ↗
Commercial bid for construction of the 250MW Riyadh campus; bids due 4 May 2026
BidderALEC · Apr 2026 · bid submitted, result pending Reported source ↗
Commercial bid for construction of the 250MW Riyadh campus; bids due 4 May 2026

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. HUMAIN and Blackstone-backed AirTrunk announce partnership to build state-of-the-art data centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Blackstone, 2025-10-28)
  2. AirTrunk signs $3bn deal with Humain to develop data centers in Saudi Arabia (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-10-29)
  3. Firms prepare bids for 250MW Airtrunk data centre (MEED, 2026-04-27)

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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.