xAI to co-develop 500MW+ data center in Saudi Arabia
xAI has partnered with HUMAIN, an AI company backed by the Saudi Arabian government, to jointly develop a global data center, which will be over 500MW in size and will use NVIDIA chips.
HUMAIN Expands Strategic Partnership with NVIDIA, Advancing Global AI Infrastructure with xAI, Global AI, and AWS at the US-Saudi Investment Forum
Musk's xAI and Nvidia to Develop Data Center in Saudi Arabia - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/musks-xai-and-nvidia-to-develop-data-center-in-saudi-arabia-a4d76ec9
Musk's xAI will be customer for Nvidia data center in Saudi Arabia
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/musks-xai-will-be-customer-for-nvidia-data-center-in-saudi-arabia.html
HUMAIN partnered with NVIDIA in May 2025 to build a 500MW AI factory in Saudi Arabia over the next five years, equipped with NVIDIA's most advanced GPUs. The first phase of this project will see the introduction of 18,000 NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputers.
HUMAIN and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Build the AI Factory of the Future in Saudi Arabia - NVIDIA | Blog
https://blogs.nvidia.co.jp/blog/humain-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-build-ai-factories-of-the-future-in-saudi-arabia/
On the sidelines of the US-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum held at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., HUMAIN announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to deploy AI infrastructure powered by up to 600,000 NVIDIA GPUs across the US and Saudi Arabia over the next three years.
In parallel, HUMAIN and xAI announced that they will jointly develop a world-class data center network in Saudi Arabia. The 500MW AI factory that HUMAIN will build in Saudi Arabia will serve as a core facility and play a part in the expansion of xAI's supercluster. In the future, this facility will support Grok training and serve as an important forward base for inference. This will be xAI's first large-scale deployment outside the United States.
The US-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum was held in conjunction with the visit of Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the US, and was attended by Elon Musk of xAI and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA.
In addition to NVIDIA and xAI, AMD and Cisco have also announced plans to collaborate with HUMAIN to develop 1GW-class data centers.
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN to Form Joint Venture to Deliver World-Leading AI Infrastructure
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amd-cisco-and-humain-to-form-joint-venture-to-deliver-world-leading-ai-infrastructure-302620732.html
Investment management company Blackstone has also partnered with HUMAIN to unveil an AI data warehouse (DWH) in Saudi Arabia.
Crown Prince Bin Salman, who visited the United States this time, is suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. However, President Trump, who welcomed the Crown Prince's visit to the United States, responded to a reporter's question by saying, 'He knew nothing about it.'
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince, who teams up with SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Fund, ordered the assassination, and a video of a surveillance camera capturing the execution unit - GIGAZINE
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