Elon Musk announced a 500-megawatt xAI data center in Saudi Arabia in partnership with HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund’s AI venture. The facility, powered by Nvidia’s latest chips, adds to Humain’s separate 600,000-GPU project first unveiled during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s earlier visit to Saudi Arabia with President Trump.
The project was highlighted at the U.S.–Saudi Investment Forum, where Huang described Saudi Arabia’s expanding AI infrastructure as a leading example of “sovereign AI” and announced a separate 100-megawatt Nvidia-powered AWS project, calling it the start of a broader “gigawatt ambition.” He emphasized that nations will need domestic AI facilities to protect national security and preserve cultural autonomy.
The announcements followed a new U.S.–Saudi AI Memorandum of Understanding, giving the kingdom access to advanced American systems while safeguarding U.S. technology.
Sharing the stage with Huang and Saudi technology minister Abdullah Alswaha, Musk outlined a future of humanoid robotics, space-based compute, and solar-powered AI satellites. “Humanoid robots will be the biggest product ever,” he said.
