Saudi AI company Humain has expanded its partnership with Nvidia to build up to 84 megawatts of AI computing capacity, roughly 27,000 GPUs, delivered in two phases. The companies announced the plan at Nvidia's GTC conference in Berlin on Thursday, and part of the capacity is earmarked for an American customer that has not been named.
The first phase is 14MW of Nvidia Blackwell HGX B300 systems, about 6,000 GPUs, with deployment starting in the fourth quarter of 2026. That capacity will serve Humain Cloud customers, a group that includes AI companies, government entities and businesses.
Humain chief executive Tareq Amin framed the expansion around speed and scale, saying the company wants the newest Nvidia systems running inside Saudi Arabia in volume.
“We are moving quickly to bring the next generations of Nvidia-accelerated computing into Saudi Arabia at meaningful scale.”— Tareq Amin, Humain CEO
Key facts
- 01Humain plans up to 84MW of Nvidia AI computing capacity, roughly 27,000 GPUs, announced at GTC Berlin on October 22, 2026.
- 02Phase 1 is 14MW of Blackwell HGX B300 systems, about 6,000 GPUs, with deployment starting in Q4 2026.
- 03Phase 2 is 70MW of Vera Rubin infrastructure, about 21,000 GPUs, planned from mid-2027.
- 0450MW of Phase 2 is reserved for an unnamed US customer; 20MW goes to Humain Cloud.
- 05Humain targets about 3GW of data center capacity by 2030 and more than 6GW by 2034.
The second phase is larger: 70MW of Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin infrastructure, about 21,000 GPUs, planned from mid-2027. Of that, 50MW is dedicated to advanced AI workloads for the unidentified US client, with deployment targeted for June. The remaining 20MW will support Humain Cloud, with deployment expected in July or August. The companies said the Vera Rubin projects remain subject to final agreements and deployment plans.
The expansion builds on a May 2025 agreement announced during US President Donald Trump's visit to Riyadh. Under that deal, Nvidia planned to supply Humain with hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips over five years, starting with 18,000 Blackwell processors as part of a plan for up to 500MW of AI capacity.
Humain launched in May 2025, is chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and is owned by the kingdom's Public Investment Fund. The company plans about 3GW of data center capacity by 2030 and more than 6GW by 2034, which puts the 84MW announced in Berlin at a small fraction of its long-range target.
Saudi Arabia is competing with the UAE for the same AI infrastructure investment. Stargate UAE, developed by G42, OpenAI and Oracle with Nvidia as a technology partner, is a 1GW cluster that forms the first phase of a planned 5GW UAE-US AI campus. Both countries depend on US export approvals to obtain advanced AI chips.
The announcement comes days after Saudi Arabia postponed its Future Investment Initiative conference, originally set for October 26 to 29, to next year following an October 10 attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport. Amin had been among the scheduled speakers at the event, which the FII Institute says has helped secure $250 billion in signed agreements and investment pledges since it began.
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