Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Saudi partner Humain will install about 150,000 AI chips at a new “AI Zone” in Riyadh. The project was first agreed in May 2025, with both groups pledging roughly $5 billion to develop the site.
The hardware mix will include Nvidia GB300 chips and AWS Trainium chips. These chips will be used for both model training and running inference. The exact share of each chip type was not disclosed.
Humain has also named AWS its “preferred AI partner” worldwide. “This marks a pivotal moment in our commitment to our partnership with Humain,” said Tanuja Randery, managing director EMEA at AWS. “By combining Humain’s local expertise and investment with AWS AI solutions—including our advanced infrastructure, hardware partnerships with Nvidia, the transformative AI platform Amazon Bedrock, and AI solutions for business users, including Amazon Quick Suite, we’re elishing a world-class innovation hub that will serve customers across Saudi Arabia and around the globe.”
Tareq Amin, Humain’s CEO, described the AI Zone as the start of a large build-out of power and compute capacity. “The AI Zone represents the beginning of a multi-gigawatt journey for Humain and AWS. From inception, this infrastructure has been engineered to serve both national priorities and the world’s accelerating demand for AI compute,” added Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain. “What truly sets this partnership apart is the scale of our ambition and the innovation in how we work together. Through a groundbreaking commercial model and a shared commitment to global market expansion, we are creating an ecosystem that will shape the future of how AI ideas can be built, deployed, and scaled for the whole world.”
Humain is also moving on other fronts in Saudi Arabia. It plans a 500MW data center with xAI and has a joint venture with AMD and Cisco to deliver 1GW of AI infrastructure in the kingdom.
AWS has been expanding in the region too. The company opened a CloudFront edge location in Jeddah earlier this year and has said it aims to launch a full cloud region in Saudi Arabia around 2026, with longer-term investments totaling more than $5.3 billion.
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