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title: "Groq and Aramco Digital plan 'world's largest' AI inference center"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/groq-aramco-digital-inference-plan-2024"
language: "en"
event_date: "2024-09-17"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "Data Centers"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Groq and Aramco Digital plan 'world's largest' AI inference center

- Event date: 17 September 2024 (2024-09-17)
- Topic: Data Centers
- In this story: Groq, Aramco Digital
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/groq-aramco-digital-inference-plan-2024

In September 2024 Groq and Aramco Digital disclosed a plan to build what they called the world's largest AI inference data center in Saudi Arabia, starting with 19,000 language processing units (LPUs) and potentially expanding to 200,000. Groq's CEO said it should be running by the end of 2024, and the cost was put in the nine-figure range with Aramco funding. The CEO also said the site offers low-latency access to four billion people within 100 milliseconds. The partnership had been announced at LEAP 2024.

## Key figures

- initial LPUs (LPUs): 19,000
- possible LPUs (LPUs): 200,000

## Sources

1. [Oil giant builds world's largest AI inference center in Saudi Arabia with US chipmaker Groq](https://the-decoder.com/oil-giant-builds-worlds-largest-ai-inference-center-in-saudi-arabia-with-us-chipmaker-groq/) — The Decoder, 2024-09-17

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

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