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title: "Data Centers in Saudi Arabia: News, Capacity & Projects"
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# Data Centers in Saudi Arabia: News, Capacity & Projects

Cloud regions, hyperscale campuses and gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure: who is building compute in the Kingdom, where, and how much capacity is live versus announced.

- 2026-09-01 — [HUMAIN launches Nvidia Blackwell Ultra cloud at 1.1MW, targets 35MW in 2027](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-nvidia-ai-cloud-live-2026)
- 2026-09-01 — [Together AI and HUMAIN plan 250MW Saudi data center targeting $5bn revenue](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/together-ai-humain-250mw-2026)
- 2026-08-31 — [AWS confirms December 2026 launch of Saudi region and 50MW AI Zone by 2028](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aws-saudi-region-december-2026-confirmed)
- 2026-03 — [Operational data center capacity reaches 467MW in Q1 2026, per official figures](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/datacentre-capacity-467mw-q1-2026)
- 2026-02-11 — [Microsoft confirms Saudi Arabia East cloud region for Q4 2026](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/microsoft-saudi-region-q4-2026-confirmed)
- 2026-01 — [SDAIA lays foundation stone for 480MW Hexagon government data center](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/hexagon-government-data-centre-groundbreaking-2026)
- 2025-12-18 — [stc's center3 and HUMAIN sign MoU for AI data center joint venture](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/stc-humain-datacenter-jv-mou-2025)
- 2025-11-19 — [HUMAIN and Nvidia plan up to 600,000 GPUs over three years](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-nvidia-600000-gpus-2025)
- 2025-11-19 — [xAI and HUMAIN to build 500MW data center in Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-xai-500mw-2025)
- 2025-11-19 — [AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN set up joint venture for up to 1GW of AI infrastructure](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/amd-cisco-humain-jv-2025)
- 2025-10-27 — [HUMAIN and Qualcomm plan 200MW of AI200/AI250 inference racks](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-qualcomm-200mw-2025)
- 2025-08-25 — [HUMAIN breaks ground on first data centers in Riyadh and Dammam](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-breaks-ground-riyadh-dammam-2025)
- 2025-05-13 — [Nvidia to supply HUMAIN with 18,000 GB300 chips in first tranche](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-nvidia-18000-chips-2025)
- 2025-05-13 — [AWS and HUMAIN announce $5bn-plus 'AI Zone' in Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-aws-ai-zone-2025)
- 2025-02-09 — [Groq switches on Dammam AI inference cluster, which it calls EMEA's largest](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/groq-dammam-cluster-opens-2025)
- 2024-09-17 — [Groq and Aramco Digital plan 'world's largest' AI inference center](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/groq-aramco-digital-inference-plan-2024)
- 2024-08-06 — [Oracle opens second Saudi public cloud region in Riyadh](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/oracle-riyadh-region-live-2024)
- 2024-03-04 — [AWS commits $5.3bn to a Saudi cloud region](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aws-5-3bn-saudi-region-announced-2024)
- 2024-03-04 — [DataVolt pledges $5bn for 300MW+ of Saudi data centers](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/datavolt-5bn-datacentres-leap24)
- 2023-11-15 — [Google Cloud opens Dammam region in Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/google-cloud-dammam-region-2023)
- 2020-02-04 — [Oracle opens Jeddah region, first public cloud region in Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/oracle-jeddah-region-live-2020)

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