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Humain Dammam campus

Dammam, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia · Dammam / Eastern Province market · location approximate to city level

Humain Dammam campus is a data center project in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, operated by Humain. It is under construction. It is planned for 100 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 26 August 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 22 October 2026.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
100 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Humain
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes4 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured○ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Power arranged.

Your call. Will it be built?

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.

Where it sits

Dammam / Eastern Province holds 8 active projects with 370 MW of planned IT load between them, and Humain Dammam campus ranks second by planned capacity. 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.

Humain has 4 others in Saudi Arabia tracked by ArusGrid, including Humain Riyadh campus, Humain / xAI Riyadh campus and Humain and center3 Riyadh AI data centre. Named funding comes from Public Investment Fund on the equity side. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as under construction on 26 August 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 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 31 August 2026, and last checked the record on 22 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseYes
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Purpose-built by a state AI company under an Nvidia accelerator partnership. Stated AI purpose.

Access to AI chips

GradeGovernment-confirmed

A dated US government document names this project's operator, its parent, or a named funder as authorised to receive advanced computing items. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedYes
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationYes
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

Humain · Commerce Department authorisation of 2025-11-19 for up to 35,000 Nvidia GB300 accelerators, case by case, subject to security and reporting conditions with ongoing BIS monitoring. (2025-11-20) source

Case-by-case authorisation only · Case-by-case authorisation only (2025-11-19) source

Phases

Initial capacity · Under construction100 MW, target Q2 2026

Stage history

2025-08-26Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorHumain · Colocation
Funder, EquityPublic Investment Fund

Who uses the compute

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

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.

Possibly linked
The source does not name the project, and more than one project we track fits. We show it on each of them and pin it to none.
UnconfirmedAl Moammar Information Systems (MIS) · Design and build contractor · SAR 1.88bn (≈US$501m) · Mar 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 2 that fit. The other is Humain Riyadh campus.

Sources checked 2026-10-22

  1. Humain breaks ground two data centers, with first facilities expected to go live in Q2 2026 (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-08-26)
  2. Mistral and Humain team up for sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-08-26)
  3. Humain secures 211 plots of land in Saudi Arabia for data centers (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-03-12)
  4. AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia's AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live (AMD, 2026-08-31)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.