Overview
- STC’s center3 said the new infrastructure in Saudi Arabia is designed to host up to 1GW of AI workloads to meet rising demand.
- Humain is backed by the Public Investment Fund and is led by chief executive Tareq Amin, underscoring high-level political support.
- Saudi Arabia plans to reduce operating costs by powering purpose-built facilities with ultra-low-cost solar electricity from projects such as the Al Shuaiba farm.
- To secure compute at scale, Humain has procured Groq semiconductors and received U.S. approval to import 35,000 Nvidia accelerators worth about $1 billion.
- Humain says its combination of efficient chips and very cheap power enables it to sell AI output tokens at roughly half typical market prices.