Humain / xAI Riyadh campus is a data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, operated by Humain. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. It is planned for 50 MW of IT load.
Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 19 November 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 20 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Land secured.
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How Saudi Arabia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh holds 14 active projects with 1,216 MW of planned IT load between them, and Humain / xAI Riyadh campus ranks 6th by planned capacity. 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 and center3 Riyadh AI data centre. Named funding comes from Public Investment Fund on the equity side. The named user of the compute is xAI (reported, unconfirmed).
The stage was recorded as announced only on 19 November 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 30 September 2026, and last checked the record on 20 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Announced with an AI lab as the counterparty and a named initial capacity buyer. Stated AI purpose.
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.
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
500 MW · 500MW announced, initially 50MW per LEAP 2026 coverage; no site, builder, contract or date published as of Oct 2026 · as of 2025-11-20
DCD on the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington says xAI and Humain to build a 500MW data center, location 'has not been revealed', Musk says Grok will be deployed across the whole country. ArusGrid's record carries 50MW; the announced figure is 500MW and no source places it in Riyadh.
Source · xAI and Humain to build 500MW Saudi Arabia data center (DCD, 2025-11-20)
Source · Humain and Infra set up $1.2bn financing package to fund 250MW of data center space in Saudi Arabia (DCD, 2026-01-22)
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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