By Jeremy Kahn
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 03:48:00
On Nvidia’s latest earnings call, CEO Jensen Huang name-checked some of the customers driving the AI chip company’s surging revenues. That included the big three cloud providers—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—as well as the best-known AI startups, OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI. But it also included a lesser-known Saudi Arabian startup, Humain, that got not one but three shout outs in Huang’s comments.
Humain is barely six months old, but it is rapidly becoming a major force in the global build out of AI infrastructure. Founded by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and backed by the nation’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, Humain has ambitions to supply 6% of the world’s AI computing power by 2034, which would make it the world’s third largest AI data center provider behind the U.S. and China.
Huang’s mentions of Humain on Nvidia’s earnings call come a day after the CEO attended a state dinner at the White House for the Crown Prince, who is visiting the U.S. for the first time since 2018. Coinciding with the visit, Humain announced a deal with Nvidia and Amazon to put 150,000 of Nvidia’s chips, including some of its state-of-the-art Grace Blackwell 300s, in data centers in a new “AI Zone” being built in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
The company also signed a landmark deal with xAI to build a 500 megawatt data center for the company in Saudi Arabia. Nvidia will supply the chips for that data center…
