Elon Musk announced a major partnership between his AI company xAI and Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI firm Humain (backed by the Suadi Public Investment Fund) to build a 500-megawatt (MW) AI data center in the kingdom.
It will use Nvidia GPUs and will be xAI’s largest and first data center project outside the United States.
Full build-out targets 500 MW of power consumption (one of the largest single AI training/inference facilities planned globally).
Phase 1 will start at 50 MW.
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