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HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers)

HUMAIN is an AI data center campus developed by HUMAIN in Riyadh Province, Riyadh. 1.90 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Under construction · HUMAIN · Private land · Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) · Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Announced-to-energized gap: 1.90 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

17th-largest announced of 97 tracked campuses35th by energized capacity86th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 1,539,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: Q2 2026. 3 months past the claimed date, with no energized capacity on record. Claimed by HUMAIN (Saudi PIF) (source).

HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) capacity claims
Source
Announced1.90 GW2026-01-01claimedjournalist report
Energized0 GW2026-07-31reportedjournalist report
Under construction0.20 GW2026-01-01reportedjournalist report

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

1.90 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

HUMAIN

Developer

Saudi Arabia

Location

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC)

Grid

private land

Land

1.90 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

On the data center map

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The story of HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers)
Announced capex
$10B
GPUs
18K 18,000 GB300
Derived
Cost per MW
$5M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

The deal

financier
Public Investment Fund (PIF) · Sole owner / sovereign backer.
chip supplier
Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm · Nvidia 18,000 GB300 (Riyadh) + hundreds of thousands more; $10B AMD deal; Qualcomm up to 200MW.
construction
MIS (Middle East Specialized Cables / contractor consortium) · Awarded HUMAIN AI data center construction project.
developer
HUMAIN · PIF-owned sovereign AI company, launched May 2025.

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
Saudi Electricity Company (SEC)
Interconnection

Silicon on site

Every AI chip publicly attributed to HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.

  1. as of 2025-05-13

    AMD Instinct MI350 series committed for HUMAIN AI factories

    reported

    AMD

  2. as of 2025-05-13

    Up to 500,000 Blackwell GPUs committed across the HUMAIN Riyadh/Dammam campuses (multi-year)

    reported

    NVIDIA

Why here

HUMAIN sits on private land in Riyadh Province, Riyadh. It connects to the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Debt financing framework to develop up to 250MW
$1.2B. Up to $1.2bn financing framework to fund additional AI data center capacity. journalist report
AMD strategic AI infrastructure deal
$10B. Multi-year AMD compute buildout; may become a JV with AMD equity in a Saudi fund. journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Investment, workforce and specs

GPUs
18,000 GB300 source

Estimated compute: the claimed 18,000 GB300 chips are on the order of 20x the compute used to train a GPT-4-class model. Derived from the chip-count claim, not measured (basis).

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party linked
    developer: linked externalName "HUMAIN" to company humain
  3. Sep 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

68549634-6d59-45db-864b-212966f675e3 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Common questions

What is HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers)?
HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Riyadh. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) use?
HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) has 1.90 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry, of which 0 GW is recorded as energized, an announced-to-energized gap of 1.90 GW. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers)?
HUMAIN is recorded as a party to HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers) is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers)?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). HUMAIN (Riyadh & Dammam flagship data centers): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/humain-saudi-arabia

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