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Humain Al-Saad campus

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Riyadh market · location approximate to district level

Humain Al-Saad campus is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by Humain. It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 4 May 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 16 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Humain
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Open question2 of 7 gates passed
○ Land secured✓ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Land secured.

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

Riyadh holds 14 active projects with 1,216 MW of planned IT load between them, and Humain Al-Saad campus has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 5 are under construction, 3 are at the land and permitting stage and 4 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Riyadh, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Humain has 4 others in Saudi Arabia tracked by ArusGrid, including Humain Dammam campus, Humain Riyadh campus and Humain / xAI Riyadh campus. Named funding comes from Public Investment Fund on the equity side. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-01, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 4 May 2026.

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 16 October 2026, and last checked the record on 16 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.

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

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Announced as AI compute capacity by a state AI company. No cooling, density or accelerator disclosure at this site.

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

Stage history

2026-05-04Land and permitting · guest.meed.com

Who is behind it

OperatorHumain · Colocation
Funder, EquityPublic Investment Fund

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

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.

Project team
Engineering consultantHatch Reported source ↗
Supporting client on 6GW Al-Saad campus (exact role not stated)
Engineering consultantEgis Reported source ↗
Supporting client on 6GW Al-Saad campus (exact role not stated)
Project managerJLL Reported source ↗
Supporting client on 6GW Al-Saad campus (exact role not stated)
Utility infrastructureAl-Yamama Company for Trading & Contracting · Sep 2026 Reported source ↗
Al-Saad campus-wide infrastructure on ECI basis: 380/132/33kV network, two substations, water, sewage, stormwater, roads, fibre
Power supply
Dedicated substation2,000 MVA · 380kV · May 2026 Reported source ↗
Campus scope includes a 2,000MVA bulk supply point, a 380/132/33kV network and two substations of 500MVA and 200MVA. Utility not named. · Applies to the whole campus.
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 Co. (MIS) · Design and build contractor · SAR 1.88bn (≈US$501m) · Feb 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are Humain Riyadh campus, Humain / xAI Riyadh campus.
UnconfirmedNational Grid SA · Grid supply · Sep 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 2 that fit. The other is Humain Riyadh campus.

Sources checked 2026-10-16

  1. Humain tenders infrastructure for 6GW data centre campus (MEED, 2026-05-04)
  2. Contractor wins 6GW data centre campus infrastructure (MEED, 2026-09-24)
  3. Al Yamama takes the infrastructure contract for Humain's 6 GW Riyadh AI campus (Enterprise AM, 2026-09-27)
  4. Humain tenders 100MW Riyadh AI data centre (MEED, 2026-10-16)

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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.