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title: "Groq switches on Dammam AI inference cluster, which it calls EMEA's largest"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/groq-dammam-cluster-opens-2025"
language: "en"
event_date: "2025-02-09"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "Data Centers"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# Groq switches on Dammam AI inference cluster, which it calls EMEA's largest

- Event date: 9 February 2025 (2025-02-09)
- Topic: Data Centers
- In this story: Groq, Aramco Digital, GroqCloud, Dammam
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/groq-dammam-cluster-opens-2025

Groq announced at LEAP 2025 that its second GroqCloud region, in Dammam, built with Aramco Digital, is live, and it called the site the largest AI inferencing facility in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The cluster runs 19,000 LPUs and, according to Groq, was brought online in December 2024. Groq said it secured a $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia for expanded LPU infrastructure, while the LEAP announcement listed the sum as a Groq and Aramco Digital investment. Groq planned at least 25 million tokens per second of capacity by the end of the first quarter of 2025. Tareq Amin, then Aramco Digital's CEO, said Saudi Arabia now offers the lowest inference cost in the world.

## Key figures

- LPUs (LPUs): 19,000
- Saudi commitment to Groq (per Groq): $1.5 bn

## Sources

1. [Groq opens EMEA's largest AI compute centre in Saudi Arabia](https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/groq-emea-largest-ai-compute-centre) — Middle East AI News, 2025-02-09
2. [LEAP 2025 launches, unveils $14.9bn in AI investment](https://gulfbusiness.com/2025/tech/leap-2025-launches-unveis-14-9bn-in-ai-investment/) — Gulf Business, 2025-02-09

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

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