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Humain / xAI Riyadh campus

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

Humain / xAI Riyadh campus is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by Humain. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. It is planned for 50 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
50 MW
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 client (reported)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Announced with an AI lab as the counterparty and a named initial capacity buyer. 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 projectYes
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

Phases

Initial build · Announced50 MW

Stage history

2025-11-19Announced · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorHumain · Colocation
Funder, EquityPublic Investment Fund
Client, reported, unconfirmedxAI
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 Al-Saad campus.

Sources checked 2026-09-26

  1. Humain and xAI to develop 500MW data center in Saudi Arabia (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-11-19)
  2. Saudi fires up Gulf AI race with $15bn tech deals at LEAP (Fortune, 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.