Newly launched Saudi Arabian AI venture Humain plans to deploy 500MW of data center compute over the next five years, featuring AMD hardware.
Together, sovereign-backed Humain and AMD will invest $10 billion in the joint effort, which will see facilities built in both Saudi Arabia and the US.
In its announcement, AMD said that the data centers would "stretch from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States." Asked if this meant it would only cover those two countries or elsewhere, AMD declined to comment.
The effort is separate from a different 500MW+ deal with Nvidia, which appears to be focused on data centers only in Saudi Arabia.
“At AMD, we have a bold vision to enable the future of AI everywhere - bringing open, high-performance computing to every developer, AI start-up, and enterprise around the world,” AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said.
“Our investment with Humain is a significant milestone in advancing global AI infrastructure. Together, we are building a globally significant AI platform that delivers performance, openness, and reach at unprecedented levels.”
Humain was launched this week by the Saudi Public Investment Fund and has since announced a slew of partnerships with AMD, Nvidia, AWS, and Groq alongside US President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia.
“This is not just another infrastructure play - it’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators,” said Humain CEO Tareq Amin, the former CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Aramco Digital.
“We are democratizing AI at the compute level, ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination, not by infrastructure.”
For this partnership, Humain will oversee the end-to-end delivery, including hyperscale data centers, power systems, and global fiber interconnects. The company said that initial deployments are already underway across key global regions with the partnership on track to activate multi-exaflops capacity by early 2026.
AMD will provide a slew of AI solutions, including Instinct GPUs, Epyc CPUs, Pensando DPUs, Ryzen AI Edge, and ROCm open source software.
