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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.

Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 28 October 2025.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
250 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
AirTrunk and Humain
Joint venture
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Long shot1 of 7 gates passed
○ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Land secured.

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, committed or approved capital, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

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.

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

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. 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.

Project team
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

  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)
  4. Joint venture wins Riyadh data centre construction deal (MEED, 2026-10-06)
  5. Humain tenders 100MW Riyadh AI data centre (MEED, 2026-10-16)

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