Aramco Digital Dammam (GroqCloud region) is a data center project in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, operated by Aramco Digital. It is operational. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 10 February 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.
This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.
Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.
How Saudi Arabia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Saudi Arabia.
Dammam / Eastern Province holds 8 active projects with 370 MW of planned IT load between them, and Aramco Digital Dammam (GroqCloud region) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 4 are operational, 2 are under construction, 1 is being commissioned and 1 is at the land and permitting stage. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Dammam / Eastern Province, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
It is the only Aramco project ArusGrid tracks. Named funding comes from Saudi Aramco on the equity side. The named user of the compute is Groq (confirmed).
The stage was recorded as operational on 10 February 2025.
The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Saudi Arabia, as of 19 November 2025, is recorded as “Case-by-case authorisation only”. ArusGrid holds 1 public source for this project, the latest dated 10 February 2025, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
19,000 Groq LPU accelerators are running in production as GroqCloud's second region globally. An actual deployment, not an inference from design.
A chip-vendor partnership or US hyperscaler relationship has been announced, but no government document names anyone involved. Signal, not licence. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.
Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source
GroqCloud inference cluster, operational since December 2024, US$1.5bn expansion · as of 2025-02-10
Groq's own release says its Dammam data center, built with Aramco Digital, has been operational since December 2024, brought online in eight days, and is the region's largest inference cluster; Saudi Arabia committed US$1.5bn to expand it.
Source · Saudi Arabia Announces $1.5 Billion Expansion to Fuel AI-powered Economy with AI Tech Leader Groq (Groq, 2025-02-10)
No published price band exists for Saudi Arabia, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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