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title: "HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program (HUMAIN), Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/humain-saudi-ai-factory-program
description: "HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program: due. 0 MW evidenced of 500 MW announced or estimated, end of August 2026 reading; operations promised by 30 June 2026."
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# HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program (HUMAIN), Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia

HUMAIN (PIF)

HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program (HUMAIN; Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia) was promised operations by 30 June 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 500 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: due, not evidenced.

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Announced or estimated (IT load) 500 MW

Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 0 MW

The book’s verdict Due, not evidenced

The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it.

The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Due, not evidenced**.

- Promised 30 June 2026
- Evidence read 27 September 2026
- Today Nov 2026

**0 MW** evidenced at the end-of-August 2026 reading, of 500 MW announced or estimated (0%).

## The announcement

**Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** 500 MW

**Where the announcement was read:** [nvidianews.nvidia.com](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/humain-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-build-ai-factories-of-the-future-in-saudi-arabia)

**When it was read:** 13 May 2025

## The promise

**Promised by:** 30 June 2026

**What was promised:** operations

**Where the promise was read:** [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudis-humain-launch-data-centers-with-us-chips-early-2026-bloomberg-news-2025-08-25/)

## At the close of the record

**Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026:** 0 MW

**Where the evidence was read:** [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/31/3353190/0/en/amd-cisco-and-humain-expand-saudi-arabia-s-ai-infrastructure-as-amd-instinct-systems-go-live.html)

**When it was read:** 27 September 2026

**The book’s verdict:** Due, not evidenced

## The book’s note

Twin sites of up to 100 MW each, ‘online in early 2026’ and ‘expected to launch in the second quarter’ in the same Reuters piece (read here to 30 June). No commissioning notice for either site found to 27 Sep (close sweep, ch12 §3); the AMD release of 31 Aug 2026 has infrastructure ‘now live’ at no named site or capacity. A matured clock that chapter 12’s count does not hold, because HUMAIN is not in the August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates’s forty.

## Also

**Who is involved:**

- owner [HUMAIN (PIF)](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/humain-pif)

## Questions about this campus

**Is HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program energized?:** HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program (HUMAIN; Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia) was promised operations by 30 June 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 500 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: due, not evidenced.

**When was HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program promised to be energized?:** HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program was promised operations by 30 June 2026.

**Who is building HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program?:** HUMAIN (PIF) (owner).

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