Amazon Web Services (AWS) and HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund (PIF) company, have agreed to deploy and manage up to 150,000 AI accelerators in a dedicated “AI Zone” data center in Riyadh, marking a major step toward expanding Saudi Arabia’s AI infrastructure for global commercial use.
The collaboration makes AWS a preferred global AI partner for HUMAIN and establishes a large-scale compute hub designed to run advanced training and inference workloads. The project brings in a large block of new AI capacity built on NVIDIA GB300 systems and AWS Trainium chips, aiming to position Saudi Arabia as a source of high-performance AI compute for both regional customers and global users.
The planned AI Zone is being set up as the Kingdom’s first facility of its kind, built to handle model training, heavy inference workloads, and newer generations of AI development. It will draw on NVIDIA’s latest GB300 GPU infrastructure together with AWS’s Trainium processors, creating a setup suited for compute-intensive work across a wide range of industries. The integrated infrastructure is engineered to allow enterprises to move from prototyping to production without managing underlying hardware, relying instead on AWS’s architecture and NVIDIA’s AI software stack.
AWS will extend a suite of its generative AI services to customers using the facility, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker. These services will give customers access to leading foundation models through one platform, allowing companies to build and scale AI applications in a managed setup without having to deal with the underlying infrastructure.
HUMAIN will also enter the AWS Solution Provider Program to help push wider AI adoption. The move ties back to the earlier plan by AWS and HUMAIN to put more than USD 5 billion into Saudi Arabia’s AI infrastructure, cloud services, and talent development. The unified approach is intended to streamline procurement, enable regional and international implementation, and accelerate commercial AI usage.
“The AI Zone represents the beginning of a multi-gigawatt journey for HUMAIN and AWS. From inception, this infrastructure has been engineered to serve both national priorities and the world’s accelerating demand for AI compute,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN.
Beyond the physical infrastructure, AWS and HUMAIN plan to expand AI use across the public and private sectors, support the creation of Arabic large language models such as HUMAIN’s “ALLAM,” and develop a unified AI agent marketplace for government services. AWS will train 100,000 Saudi citizens in cloud and generative AI skills through Amazon Academy, along with a program to upskill 10,000 women. These initiatives complement the Kingdom’s objective to build a workforce fit for an AI-enabled economy projected to contribute USD 130 billion to GDP by 2030.
The AI Zone rollout and accompanying workforce programs mark the next stage in AWS and HUMAIN’s long-term partnership to expand the Kingdom’s AI capacity and accelerate its role in the global AI economy.