Saudi Aramco is taking a 49 percent stake in Humain, a Saudi company aiming to make the country a global AI hub. According to Aramco, it will contribute about $2.6 billion in 2026, along with its own AI technology.
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, PIF, founded Humain in May 2025. The company builds data centers, develops cloud services and trains AI models, including the Arabic language model ALLaM. It aims to serve customers in Saudi Arabia and abroad and become a leading AI exporter.
Some of that infrastructure is already serving customers. In late August, AMD reported that infrastructure it built with Cisco and Humain was serving customers both inside and outside Saudi Arabia.
Aramco plans to use and sell the technology
Aramco plans to use the technology in its own operations. It also aims to earn additional revenue by selling its AI solutions. The company has another AI investment through Wa’ed Ventures, its investment arm, which holds a stake in Korean AI chip developer Rebellions.
The Iran war is affecting Humain’s data center buildout. CEO Tareq Amin told Semafor in September that the company was strengthening protection for its facilities. Saudi Arabia is using Aramco’s experience securing oil infrastructure as a model. Humain has seen no drop in demand despite the war.
Humain’s longer-term plan is to build three gigawatts of data center capacity by 2030.
