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DataVolt Oxagon AI campus

Oxagon, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia · NEOM / Oxagon market · location approximate to district level

DataVolt Oxagon AI campus is a data center project in Oxagon, Saudi Arabia, operated by DataVolt. It is under construction. It is planned for 360 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: moved to under construction on 31 August 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 22 October 2026.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
360 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
DataVolt
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes5 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

DataVolt Oxagon AI campus is the only active project ArusGrid tracks in NEOM / Oxagon, at 360 MW of planned IT load. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for NEOM / Oxagon, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

DataVolt has 1 other in Saudi Arabia tracked by ArusGrid, including DataVolt Riyadh East (First Technology Park). Named funding comes from Vision Invest on the equity side and NEOM and Humain. The named user of the compute is Humain (reported, unconfirmed).

The build is phased. Phase 1 (DataVolt 360MW first phase of 1.5GW masterplan) at 360 MW is under construction with a 2028 target; Humain co-developed tranche within phase 1 at 100 MW is under construction with a 2028 target. The dated record runs from announced only on 10 February 2025 to under construction on 31 August 2026. Cooling uses hybrid air and liquid cooling.

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 8 public sources for this project, the latest dated 7 September 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 client (reported)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseYes
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

Announced as a net-zero AI factory. Stated AI purpose with no site-level cooling or accelerator disclosure. Liquid cooling stated by w.media on 2026-07-17. Seawater provides 100% of heat rejection; 70% liquid / 30% air cooling (DataVolt NEOM).

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

Phase 1 (DataVolt 360MW first phase of 1.5GW masterplan) · Under construction360 MW, target 2028
Humain co-developed tranche within phase 1 · Under construction100 MW, target 2028

Stage history

2025-02-10Announced · datacenterdynamics.com
2026-08-31Under construction · neom.com

Who is behind it

OperatorDataVolt · Colocation
Funder, EquityVision Invest
Funder, Joint venture partnerNEOM
Funder, Joint venture partnerHumain

Who uses the compute

Tenant · GPU cloudHumain · reported, unconfirmed

100 MW · First 100MW of the 360MW first phase, Humain-DataVolt collaboration, ground broken Sep 2026 · as of 2026-09-07

DCD reports that Humain and DataVolt broke ground on the first 100MW of the 360MW first phase of the Oxagon campus, with DataVolt as developer and operator and Humain's partnership expanded to 100MW; the campus targets 1.5GW on NEOM renewables. ArusGrid carries Humain only as a funder on this row; this is the compute commitment.

Source · Humain breaks ground on Neom's Oxagon data center (DCD, 2026-09-07)

Source · Saudi Arabia's Humain and DataVolt collaborate on data center development (DCD, 2025-11-07)

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.

Land
LandlordOxagon (NEOM) · leased · Feb 2025 Reported source ↗
Oxagon to lease land and provide infrastructure under $5bn agreement
LandlordOxagon (NEOM) · leased · Mar 2025 Reported source ↗
Oxagon will lease the land to DataVolt and provide infrastructure support. MEED on 2026-09-01 says the project uses Oxagon pre-zoned industrial land.
Power supply
Power allocation or planFeb 2025 Confirmed source ↗
NEOM states the facility will be entirely powered by renewable energy. Supplier and contract not named. · Oxagon provides infrastructure support under the agreement. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
WaterSeawater for cooling · Seawater (heat rejection) Reported source ↗
seawater used for heat rejection, not stated as desalinated
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling Reported source ↗
Seawater provides 100% of heat rejection; 70% liquid / 30% air cooling (DataVolt NEOM)
WaterLG Electronics Reported source ↗
MOU only.
Cooling Reported source ↗
DataVolt signed an MOU with LG Electronics in September 2025 to supply cooling systems.

Sources checked 2026-10-22

  1. DataVolt plans 1.5GW data center campus in Neom's Oxagon (DatacenterDynamics, 2025-02-10)
  2. HUMAIN partners with DataVolt to jointly develop 100MW of a 360MW AI data center project in NEOM (NEOM, 2026-08-31)
  3. DataVolt and HUMAIN break ground on first AI data center in NEOM (W.Media, 2026-08-31)
  4. Humain breaks ground on Neom's Oxagon data center (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-09-07)
  5. HUMAIN and DataVolt to develop 100MW of AI-ready data centre (Middle East Construction News, 2026-09-03)
  6. Saudi Arabian data center firm races to export compute from NEOM (Semafor, 2026-09-07)
  7. Humain and DataVolt start Oxagon data centre work (MEED, 2026-09-01)
  8. LG Taps Middle East Growth With NEOM Oxagon AI Data Center Partnership (LG Electronics, 2025-09-08)

Also run by DataVolt

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.