HUMAIN & AMD target 6GW of AI compute by 2034
Global data centre joint venture to reduce compute cost by 30%
#SaudiArabia #datacentres - Saudi Arabia's national artificial intelligence company HUMAIN and US AI infrastructure firm AMD have revealed ambitious plans for their $10 billion joint venture, announced during US President Trump’s official visit to the Kingdom last month. Speaking at AMD’s developer event Advancing AI 2025, Tareq Amin, HUMAN CEO, and Lisa Su, CEO AMD, committed to reducing total cost of ownership for AI developers by 30 percent, whilst targeting 6 Gigawatts (GW) of AI infrastructure capacity by 2034. Both CEOs hinted that their joint venture’s data centres would use AMD’s new MI350 AI chips, which were launched during the event.
The AMD-HUMAIN joint venture will put 50 megawatts (MW) of capacity online by the end of 2025 and then build out a 50MW module every quarter for the foreseeable future. Amin also revealed that construction has already started to build two large campuses containing 11 data centers, each one of them with a capacity of 200 megawatt capacity each.
SO WHAT? - Last month AMD and HUMAN announced a groundbreaking joint venture to create a global AI hyperscaler, in an industry first that sees both the AI infrastructure vendor and the service provider in partnership. The partnership will leverage Saudi Arabia's abundant power resources and land availability aiming to create the world's most cost-effective AI infrastructure platform. However, the venture will have global impact, expanding internationally with the first overseas data centre to be located in the USA. The partnership will serve sovereign, enterprise and AI laboratory customers across the Kingdom and worldwide.
Speaking at AMD Advancing AI 2025, Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, and Lisa Su, CEO AMD, committed to reducing total cost of ownership for AI developers by 30 percent via the new AMD-HUMAIN global data centre joint venture announced last month.
The joint venture will deliver AI infrastructure with total cost of ownership 30% lower than any global competitor, positioning the joint venture as the world's most cost-effective option for AI training and inference workloads.
The HUMAIN CEO also confirmed targets for the joint venture of providing 1.9GW of AI infrastructure capacity by 2030 and 6GW by 2034. The venture was originally announced last month with a target of 500MW by 2030.
This year’s plan is to have the first 50MW data centre operational by Q4 2025, expanding at a rate of 50MW deployed every quarter thereafter.
Amin also expressed his enthusiasm for the new AMD MI350, the new AI chip launched this week to rival NVIDIA’s Blackwell, and new MI400 series due for availability in 2026. Both Amin and Su hinted that their joint venture’s data centres would use MI350s.
Construction is currently underway for two large AI campuses housing 11 data centres of 200MW capacity each in Riyadh.
The venture capitalises on Saudi Arabia’s projected 100GW compute deficit by 2030 as a strategic advantage, combining abundant land, mixed renewable and traditional energy sources, and a young population developing AI capabilities.
AMD's full computing stack including current MI350 chips and upcoming MI400 series processors are expected to form the technical foundation, with joint teams implementing open architecture solutions designed for global scalability.
The collaboration extends beyond traditional vendor relationships through co-ownership structures where both companies share risks and outcomes, representing what AMD describes as "Sovereign AI 2.0" partnership models.
Global expansion plans include initial deployment in the United States following Saudi Arabia rollout, with the venture positioning itself as an international AI hyperscaler serving multiple geographic markets.
The partnership includes networking giant Cisco and adopts an open ecosystem approach, inviting additional technology and financial partners to participate in addressing global AI infrastructure energy challenges.
ZOOM OUT - The ambitious scaling targets follow just one month after the launch announcement of HUMAIN by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a Public Investment Fund-owned AI company designed to operate across the entire AI value chain. The formation of HUMAIN represents Saudi Arabia's strategic consolidation of years of digital transformation initiatives under a single operating entity, with the Crown Prince directly chairing the company to position the Kingdom as a global AI leader. HUMAIN has also announced partnerships and deals with AWS, Luma AI NVIDIA and Qualcomm over the past month.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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