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Humain Al-Saad campus

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

Humain Al-Saad campus is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by Humain. It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Humain
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Sourced

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

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

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Announced as AI compute capacity by a state AI company. No cooling, density or accelerator disclosure at this site.

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

2026-05-04Land and permitting · guest.meed.com

Who is behind it

OperatorHumain · Colocation
Funder, EquityPublic Investment Fund

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

Who builds it
Engineering consultantHatch Reported source ↗
Supporting client on 6GW Al-Saad campus (exact role not stated)
Engineering consultantEgis Reported source ↗
Supporting client on 6GW Al-Saad campus (exact role not stated)
Project managerJLL Reported source ↗
Supporting client on 6GW Al-Saad campus (exact role not stated)
Utility infrastructureAl-Yamama Company for Trading & Contracting · Sep 2026 Reported source ↗
Al-Saad campus-wide infrastructure on ECI basis: 380/132/33kV network, two substations, water, sewage, stormwater, roads, fibre
Power supply
Dedicated substation2,000 MVA · 380kV · May 2026 Reported source ↗
Campus scope includes a 2,000MVA bulk supply point, a 380/132/33kV network and two substations of 500MVA and 200MVA. Utility not named. · Applies to the whole campus.
Possibly linked
The source does not name the project, and more than one project we track fits. We show it on each of them and pin it to none.
UnconfirmedAl Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS) · Design and build contractor · SAR 1.88bn (≈US$501m) · Feb 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are Humain Riyadh campus, Humain / xAI Riyadh campus.
UnconfirmedNational Grid SA · Grid supply · Sep 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 2 that fit. The other is Humain Riyadh campus.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Humain tenders infrastructure for 6GW data centre campus (MEED, 2026-05-04)
  2. Contractor wins 6GW data centre campus infrastructure (MEED, 2026-09-24)

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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.