Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s new artificial intelligence company, is poised to launch its first data centers in Riyadh and Dammam during the first quarter of 2026, according to Chief Executive Officer Tareq Amin.

Using semiconductors imported from the US chipmakers, including NVIDIA, the new centers are expected to operate with an initial capacity of up to 100 megawatts each, Amin told Bloomberg on the sidelines of an event to mark the launch of HUMAIN Chat.

Amin noted that the company received the local regulatory approval to purchase 18,000 of NVIDIA's latest AI chips. “It depends on the governance and the protocols and the approval of the US government, and these are formalities that we are going to start going through very, very soon,” he added.

In May, HUMAIN announced its strategic partnership with NVIDIA in a move to establish Saudi Arabia as a global leader in AI, GPU cloud computing, and digital transformation to drive innovation and growth worldwide.

As part of this partnership, the Saudi company is set to invest heavily to build AI factories in the Kingdom with a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts, powered by several hundred thousand of NVIDIA’s most advanced GPUs over the next five years.