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Humain Riyadh campus

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

Humain Riyadh campus is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by Humain. It is under construction. It is planned for 100 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 26 August 2025.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
100 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Humain
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes5 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Tenant or own use.

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, dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Purpose-built by a state AI company, with an Nvidia partnership covering GB300 accelerators. Stated AI purpose.

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

Initial capacity · Under construction100 MW, target Q2 2026

Stage history

2025-08-26Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorHumain · Colocation
Funder, EquityPublic Investment Fund

Who uses the compute

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.

Power supply
Grid supplyNational Grid SA (Saudi Electricity Company) · Sep 2026 Confirmed source ↗
No capacity or energisation date given
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 Al-Saad 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 Al-Saad campus.
UnconfirmedAl Moammar Information Systems (MIS) · Design and build contractor · SAR 1.88bn (≈US$501m) · Mar 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 2 that fit. The other is Humain Dammam campus.

Sources

  1. Humain breaks ground two data centers, with first facilities expected to go live in Q2 2026 (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-08-26)
  2. Mistral and Humain team up for sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-08-26)
  3. AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Bring AI Infrastructure Online in Saudi Arabia, Plan 1GW Expansion (Arabian Reseller, 2026-08-31)
  4. LEAP 2026: Saudi Energy Signs Deals to Support Digital Infrastructure for Data, AI Centers (Asharq Al-Awsat, 2026-09-02)
  5. AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia's AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live (AMD, 2026-08-31)
  6. LEAP 2026: Saudi Energy Signs Deals to Support Digital Infrastructure for Data, AI Centers (Saudi Press Agency, 2026-09-02)
  7. Humain tenders 100MW Riyadh AI data centre (MEED, 2026-10-16)
  8. Joint venture wins Riyadh data centre construction deal (MEED, 2026-10-06)
  9. Contractor wins 6GW data centre campus infrastructure (MEED, 2026-09-24)

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