Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence company HUMAIN and digital infrastructure developer DataVolt have formed a strategic partnership to develop a multi-gigawatt pipeline of data centers aimed at handling large-scale AI workloads.
The companies said the partnership would combine HUMAIN’s artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities with DataVolt’s experience developing and operating data centers and associated energy and cooling infrastructure. The planned facilities are intended to support compute-intensive activities such as training AI models and running inference workloads.
HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin said: “By combining HUMAIN’s end-to-end AI expertise with DataVolt’s sustainable infrastructure capabilities, we’re building the foundation for a new era of intelligent computing at a lower cost of compute."
Building Saudi Arabia’s AI Infrastructure Base
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund launched HUMAIN in May 2025 to operate across the AI value chain, including data centers, cloud infrastructure, advanced models and applications.
HUMAIN has separately reached infrastructure agreements with major semiconductor companies. A collaboration with AMD provides for investments of up to $10 billion to deploy as much as 500 megawatts of AI computing capacity over five years.. Another agreement with Nvidia envisages AI data centers with a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts, powered by several hundred thousand advanced Nvidia graphics processors over the same period, the chipmaker.
Those agreements show the different elements involved in HUMAIN’s strategy: chip supply and computing systems from technology companies, paired with the physical facilities, electricity systems and cooling infrastructure needed to operate them. The DataVolt agreement addresses the latter part of that chain.
From Development Pipeline to Construction
The partnership subsequently moved toward a defined project at Oxagon, NEOM’s industrial city on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast. On August 31, 2026, HUMAIN and DataVolt announced plans to jointly develop 100 megawatts of DataVolt’s 360-megawatt first phase. Construction is underway, with the first 100 megawatts expected to become available in 2028.
DataVolt’s wider plan for Oxagon calls for a 1.5-gigawatt campus. The company originally reached an agreement with NEOM in February 2025 to develop the site, with an initial investment of $5 billion allocated to the first phase. The project is designed to use advanced cooling systems and incorporate renewable energy, although claims concerning its eventual emissions performance will depend on how the facility is powered and operated after completion.
The August 2026 announcement provided the first direct connection between the broad multi-gigawatt HUMAIN–DataVolt partnership and a named development.
