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title: "AWS and HUMAIN announce $5bn-plus 'AI Zone' in Saudi Arabia"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-aws-ai-zone-2025"
language: "en"
event_date: "2025-05-13"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "Data Centers"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# AWS and HUMAIN announce $5bn-plus 'AI Zone' in Saudi Arabia

- Event date: 13 May 2025 (2025-05-13)
- Topic: Data Centers
- In this story: AWS, HUMAIN, Nvidia
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-aws-ai-zone-2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and HUMAIN announced an AI Zone with investment of more than $5 billion, combining AWS infrastructure, semiconductors and UltraCluster networking with services such as SageMaker, Bedrock and Amazon Q, plus a unified AI agent marketplace for government. The AI Zone is separate from AWS's $5.3 billion region commitment. In November 2025 the partners expanded the arrangement with Nvidia infrastructure and an AWS AI-chip deal, and at LEAP 2026 AWS said it will make up to 50 MW available in the AI Zone by 2028.

## Key figures

- AI Zone investment (more than): $5 bn
- AI Zone capacity by 2028: 50 MW

## Sources

1. [Saudi Arabia's new AI venture Humain teams up with AWS for $5bn AI Zone](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/saudi-arabias-new-ai-venture-humain-teams-up-with-aws-for-5bn-ai-zone/) — DatacenterDynamics, 2025-05-13
2. [Nvidia, AMD, Amazon cash in on Saudi Arabia's AI hub ambitions](https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/13/nvidia-amd-amazon-cash-saudi-arabias-ai-hub-ambitions/) — SiliconANGLE, 2025-05-13
3. [AWS and HUMAIN Expand Partnership with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and AWS AI Chip Deal](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251119637708/en/AWS-and-HUMAIN-Expand-Partnership-with-NVIDIA-AI-Infrastructure-and-AWS-AI-Chip-Deal-to-Drive-Global-AI-Innovation) — Business Wire, 2025-11-19

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

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