Humain’s taking bids for its next data center project

Humain is putting its next Riyadh data center out to bid: The PIF-backed AI infrastructure developer has issued a request for proposals for an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a 100 MW facility in the capital’s Al-Saad district, with bids due 8 November, Meed reports. Meed puts the contract at c. USD 1 bn.

The build is sized for heavy GPU workloads. The first phase splits into two 50 MW stages designed for high-density GPU clusters, with rack densities of 240-250 kW cooled by direct-to-chip liquid loops. An optional expansion would take the site to 200 MW. Phase one targets service by October 2028, phase two by January 2029.

IN CONTEXT- The tender is one component of a much larger planned buildout: Humain is developing the infrastructure for what it says will be a 6 GW AI campus in Al-Saad, where Al Yamama holds the enabling-works contract.

REMEMBER: Humain CEO Tareq Amin previously told us the company aims to bring 250 MW of data center capacity online by the end of this year, then scale to 1.7 GW in 2027. “Global off-takers [are] coming to Saudi to really export AI tokens to the rest of the world,” he said.