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HUMAIN and NVIDIA plan up to 500MW of Saudi AI factories, starting with 18,000 GB300 chips

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During President Trump’s visit to Riyadh, NVIDIA and HUMAIN announced AI factories in Saudi Arabia of up to 500 megawatts, using several hundred thousand NVIDIA GPUs over five years. The first phase is an 18,000-chip GB300 Grace Blackwell supercomputer. In the same release NVIDIA said SDAIA would deploy up to 5,000 Blackwell GPUs for a sovereign AI factory.

Why it matters

The deal made Saudi Arabia a large planned buyer of NVIDIA’s newest chips, which still needed US export licences before delivery.

When
13 May 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0138
Who
HUMAIN, NVIDIA, SDAIA, Public Investment Fund; Jensen Huang, Tareq Amin

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NVIDIA. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0138: “HUMAIN and NVIDIA plan up to 500MW of Saudi AI factories, starting with 18,000 GB300 chips.” wheresthe.ai, 13 May 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/sa-humain-nvidia-ai-factories-2025-05/ (source: NVIDIA).

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