On November 19, 2025, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (left) talks with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the US-Saudi Investment Forum held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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Nvidia And xAI announced Wednesday that a massive data center facility it is building in Saudi Arabia that will house hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips and count Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup as its first customer.
Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both attended the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C.
The announcement builds on a partnership from May, when Nvidia announced it would provide Saudi Arabia’s Humane with chips that use 500 megawatts of power. Humane said Wednesday that the project will include about 600,000 Nvidia graphics processing units.
Humain was founded earlier this year and is owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund. Plans for the data center were first announced during Huang’s visit to Saudi Arabia with President Donald Trump.
“Can you imagine this? A startup with about $0 billion in revenue wants to build a data center for Elon,” Huang said.
The facility is one of the most prominent examples of what Nvidia calls “sovereign AI.” The company said countries will increasingly need to build data centers for AI to protect national security and culture. It’s also a potentially huge market for Nvidia’s expensive AI chips, beyond a handful of hyperscalers.
Hwang’s appearance at an event supported by President Trump is another sign of the administration’s focus on AI. Huang has forged a friendly relationship with the president as he works to get Nvidia a license to ship future AI chips to China.
Musk, a key figure in the early days of the second Trump administration, briefly confused the size of data centers, measured in megawatts, a unit of electricity, when announcing the deal. He joked that plans for a data center that would be 1,000 times larger would have to wait.
“It’s going to be $8 billion,” Musk joked.
Humain doesn’t just use Nvidia chips. advanced micro device and Qualcomm It also plans to sell chips and AI systems to Humane. AMD CEO Lisa Su and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon attended a state dinner honoring Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday.
AMD plans to offer chips that require up to 1 gigawatt of power by 2030. The company said the chip it offers is the Instinct MI450 GPU for AI. Cisco AMD said it will provide additional infrastructure to the data center.
Qualcomm plans to sell new data center chips to Humane called the AI200 and AI250, which were first announced in October. Humain will deploy 200 megawatts of Qualcomm chips, the company said.
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