PIF’s AI arm, Humain, began the physical build-out of its AI infrastructure, taking delivery of Qualcomm’s full-stack Cloud AI 100 racks for a new data center designed for large-scale AI inferencing and edge-to-cloud hybrid workloads, Middle East AI News reports.

SOUND SMART- An AI rack is a purpose-built server cabinet optimized for high-scale machine learning and generative AI workloads. Unlike general-purpose servers, these racks integrate specialized hardware to maximize processing power and efficiency, serving as the high-performance backbone for enterprise-grade AI infrastructure.

About the data center: Phase one of the data center will roll out over 1k AI accelerators, aiming for 200 MW capacity in 2026 and positioning it among the world’s largest Qualcomm implementations. Adobe is the facility’s first customer. Later phases may introduce Qualcomm’s AI200 and AI250 accelerators, boosting memory bandwidth and cost-efficient scaling for demanding generative AI workloads.

Humain + Qualcomm: The project builds on a May 2025 partnership between Humain and Qualcomm at the US-Saudi Investment Forum. Back in September, Humain launched its Horizon Pro AI laptop, which runs the ALLaM Arabic-first large language model locally on Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. Qualcomm is also planning to open an AI engineering center in Riyadh to support Humain’s data center rollout.

Humain’s 90-day blitzkrieg: Humain has made numerous AI-related moves in recent months, getting the ball rolling on the PIF’s strategic pivot away from capital-intensive real estate megaprojects and toward high-velocity technology. This includes a USD 1.2 bn financing framework to support up to 250 MW of data center capacity, acquiring a controlling stake in UK-based sports tech firm AI.IO, and taking a “significant” minority stake in xAI through a USD 3 bn Series E investment.

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