Al Yamama takes the infrastructure contract for Humain’s 6 GW Riyadh AI campus

The groundwork for Humain’s newest Riyadh AI campus now has a builder. Al Yamama Company for Trading & Contracting has secured the contract to lay the infrastructure for the PIF-owned AI firm’s planned 6-GW data center campus in the capital. The Dammam-based contractor is taking on the enabling works for the hyperscale site, which the PIF-owned AI firm tendered in May, Meed reports.

Al Yamama’s scope covers the backbone — a power distribution network operating at 380 kV, 132 kV, and 33 kV, two substations of 500 MVA and 200 MVA, and a 2k MVA bulk supply point, along with water and fire systems, a sewage treatment plant, stormwater drainage, roads, and underground cable and fiber. Humain is running the job on an early contractor involvement basis, where shortlisted teams pitch designs and methodologies before one is chosen to build.

The campus will sit on a 24-sq-km site in east Riyadh’s Al Saad area, built in two phases on six plots, each at 1 GW.

Why it matters: A 6-GW AI campus needs power infrastructure on a very different scale from a conventional data center, with dedicated high-voltage networks and substations to support the load. This contract puts the infrastructure behind Humain’s plans into construction, with a Saudi contractor leading the works.

IN CONTEXT- The Al Saad campus is the largest of several Humain sites now taking shape. In Neom’s Oxagon, Humain and DataVolt have broken ground on the first 100 MW of a 360 MW facility, the opening phase of a planned 1.5 GW campus due to start operating in 2028. A build with AMD and Cisco is scaling toward 1 GW by 2030, and a separate Riyadh project it awarded to contractor MIS is growing to 250 MW.

REMEMBER- The award feeds Humain’s fast-expanding compute push. At Leap 2026, the AI firm anchored more than USD 15 bn in launches and agreements, stitching itself across the stack from power and data centers to models and hardware.