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title: "AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN set up joint venture for up to 1GW of AI infrastructure"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/amd-cisco-humain-jv-2025"
language: "en"
event_date: "2025-11-19"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "Data Centers"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN set up joint venture for up to 1GW of AI infrastructure

- Event date: 19 November 2025 (2025-11-19)
- Topic: Data Centers
- In this story: AMD, Cisco, HUMAIN
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/amd-cisco-humain-jv-2025

AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN announced a joint venture in November 2025, around the US-Saudi Investment Forum, to deploy up to 1 GW of AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia by 2030. The venture builds on the AMD collaboration announced in May 2025, and its first phase was reported as 100 MW. In September 2026 the partners reported the first AMD Instinct MI355X cluster live in the Kingdom, with HUMAIN planning 13,000 AMD GPUs in 2026 and up to 250 MW of additional infrastructure starting in 2027.

## Key figures

- target by 2030: 1 GW

## Sources

1. [AMD, Cisco, and Humain set up JV for 1GW of AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia](https://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amd-cisco-and-humain-set-up-jv-for-1gw-of-ai-infrastructure-in-saudi-arabia/) — DatacenterDynamics, 2025-11-20
2. [HUMAIN partners with AMD, Cisco to power Kingdom's AI future](https://sharikatmubasher.com/media-hub/news/21518539/humain-partners-with-amd-cisco-to-power-kingdoms-ai-future) — Sharikat Mubasher
3. [Biggest ex-US AMD inference cluster](https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/biggest-ex-us-amd-inference-cluster) — Middle East AI News, 2026-09-03

Archive report. Written in 2026 from contemporary sources and dated to the day the event happened.

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