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Investing.com -- Saudi Arabia’s new artificial intelligence company, Humain, has started construction on its first data centers in the kingdom, with plans to have them operational in early 2026 using US-imported semiconductors.
The facilities in Riyadh and Dammam are expected to launch in the second quarter of 2026, each with an initial capacity of up to 100 megawatts, according to Chief Executive Officer Tareq Amin.
Humain is currently procuring semiconductors for these data centers from US chipmakers, including Nvidia. The Saudi company has received local regulatory approval to purchase 18,000 of Nvidia’s latest AI chips, Amin added.
"It depends on the governance and the protocols and the approval of the US government, and these are formalities that we are going to start going through very, very soon," Amin said Monday during an interview at an event marking the launch of Humain’s Arabic chatbot.
Humain, owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, was launched in May. The company plans to add 1.9 gigawatts’ worth of data centers by 2030.
The Saudi AI firm is also working with AMD on a joint venture that will likely see AMD own equity in a special purpose fund being created in the kingdom. This collaboration is part of a $10 billion deal the two companies signed earlier this year to build AI infrastructure.