HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, and DataVolt, a Saudi-based developer and operator of sustainable digital infrastructure, today announced at LEAP an expanded partnership to develop 100MW of the 360MW AI-ready data center at Oxagon,the industrial city on the Red Sea coast in NEOM[LC1] .
The facility will form part of the 360MW first phase of DataVolt’s planned AI data center campus at Oxagon. With construction now underway, the project moves from planning into execution, delivering high-density digital infrastructure designed to support the rapidly growing compute requirements of advanced artificial intelligence. The facility is expected to integrate renewable energy sources, innovative cooling technologies, and high-performance computing clusters to support large-scale AI and cloud workloads, with the first 100MW anticipated to be available in 2028.
The project brings together HUMAIN’s capabilities across the AI stack with DataVolt’s expertise in developing, financing, delivering and operating large-scale digital infrastructure. Designed for the demands of next-generation accelerated computing, the facility will provide the physical infrastructure required to deploy AI compute at significant scale.
“AI ambition only matters when you can turn it into infrastructure, compute and capacity that customers can use. That is what this partnership with DataVolt is about. Construction is underway, 100MW is moving forward, and we are building with the speed and scale that the next era of AI demands.”
– Tareq Amin, CEO, HUMAIN
For DataVolt, the groundbreaking marks the start of construction on the 360MW first phase of its wider planned 1.5GW Oxagon campus. The development builds on DataVolt’s broader infrastructure pipeline across Saudi Arabia and Central Asia and its experience structuring and delivering capital-intensive digital infrastructure projects.
“AI infrastructure at this scale demands more than capital and capacity, but disciplined execution, from power and engineering through construction and operations. Our partnership with HUMAIN brings together our complementary capabilities with a clear focus on delivery and bringing world class digital infrastructure capacity to the Kingdom. Breaking ground at Oxagon is an important milestone as we move forward with the first 360MW phase and build the infrastructure required to support AI compute at scale.
– Rajit Nanda, CEO, DataVolt
The companies expect the project to benefit from Oxagon’s industrial infrastructure – pre-zoned industrial land availability, at scale energy resources and access to low-latency compute through subsea cable connectivity to Europe and Africa – all designed to support large-scale industrial and technology developments. These characteristics are particularly important for AI infrastructure, where access to power, speed of development, connectivity and operating efficiency are becoming increasingly critical to the economics of compute.
“Breaking ground on the HUMAIN and DataVolt project is an important demonstration of the industrial ecosystem taking shape at Oxagon. The ability to secure the power, land and connectivity needed to grow is becoming critical to the economics of AI. As progress on the first phase of DataVolt’s AI campus accelerates, Oxagon is bringing these advantages together to create a strong proposition for companies building the infrastructure required for the next generation of AI.”
– Eng. Aiman Al-Mudaifer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Office, NEOM
The project comes as global demand for AI infrastructure continues to accelerate, increasing requirements for power, high-density data center capacity and the infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly powerful computing systems.
The HUMAIN-DataVolt partnership is designed to address that demand by combining AI capabilities with infrastructure delivery at scale, creating a pathway from data center capacity to deployable AI compute.
The 100MW development represents the next step in that partnership and a tangible milestone in the build-out of large-scale AI infrastructure at Oxagon.
