Nvidia And xAI Join Saudi AI Push With Massive Data Center Deal

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Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI will anchor a massive new Saudi data-center project built by Humain and backed by the Public Investment Fund. The first phase uses about 600,000 Nvidia GPUs inside a 500-MW facility first mapped out during Jensen Huang’s Saudi visit with Trump. xAI will be the center’s first customer as Saudi Arabia accelerates its “sovereign AI” strategy. Humain also plans to source AI hardware from AMD and Qualcomm, broadening the buildout beyond Nvidia’s stack.

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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.

00:02NVIDIA and XAI announced that a new Saudi data center equipped with hundreds of thousands of

00:06NVIDIA AI chips will list XAI as its first customer, according to CNBC.

00:11Project developed by Saudi Arabia's Humane and owned by the Public Investment Fund,

00:15will use about 600,000 NVIDIA GPUs as part of a 500-megawatt build first outlined during

00:20Jensen Huang's visit to Saudi Arabia with President Trump.

00:24Huang and Musk appeared in the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, highlighting the administration's

00:27emphasis on AI, and NVIDIA's push for sovereign AI infrastructure.

00:32Main will also buy chips and systems from AMD and Qualcomm.

00:35For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.

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