HUMAIN, an AI infrastructure company owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has signed a landmark framework agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI to jointly build next-generation GPU supercomputing facilities in Saudi Arabia and deploy Grok models nationwide.
Announced at the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, the agreement positions HUMAIN as one of the world’s fastest-growing Nvidia-backed AI compute providers. The centrepiece is a 500 MW+ hyperscale GPU data centre, expected to become one of the most advanced and cost-efficient AI compute hubs globally. This marks xAI’s first major compute deployment outside the United States.
Under the collaboration, HUMAIN and xAI will develop a network of GPU data centres across the Kingdom to power the training and scaling of frontier AI models. HUMAIN’s low-cost infrastructure capabilities will combine with xAI’s model-level optimisation to create what both companies describe as a “next-generation AI compute foundation”.
The partnership also includes the nationwide rollout of xAI’s Grok models. Grok will be integrated into HUMAIN’s agent platform, HUMAIN ONE, enabling real-time intelligence, autonomous workflows, and high-performance AI copilots across government and enterprise systems. HUMAIN refers to this as a unified national AI layer supporting advanced decision-making capabilities.
Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, said HUMAIN’s infrastructure capabilities enable “massive and efficient compute” and make Saudi Arabia a prime location to accelerate future AI systems.
HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin added that the collaboration creates “scale that few others can match” while expanding the Kingdom’s technological ambitions.
The xAI partnership follows HUMAIN’s newly announced collaboration with New York–based Global AI, an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, to build large-scale AI compute capacity in the United States. That project includes off-premises, air-gapped data centres equipped with liquid-cooled NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems. While separate from the Saudi initiative, it signals HUMAIN’s broader strategy to establish a multi-country AI infrastructure footprint anchored in the latest NVIDIA platforms.
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