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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.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
100 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Humain
Colocation
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.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

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

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 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

2025-08-26Under construction · datacenterdynamics.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.

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.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  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)

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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.