Nvidia to ship 18,000 AI GPUs for $10 billion Saudi AI project

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh that the first delivery will include 18,000 Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs combined with InfiniBand networking, enough to energize an initial 500-megawatt facility.

AMD, meanwhile, will supply additional accelerators and software for data centers “stretching from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States,” according to a separate statement. The combined order forms part of a planned $10 billion infrastructure program announced by Humain’s chair, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Access to sovereign clients such as Humain broadens the customer base for high-performance AI silicon, a market still dominated by the largest cloud operators. Nvidia shares gained as much as 6.4 percent in New York trading after the announcement, while AMD rose by up to 4.5 percent.

The agreement follows the US administration’s decision to shelve proposed “AI diffusion” export controls that would have limited shipments of advanced chips to Saudi Arabia. Saudi regulations requiring local personal and financial data storage have already encouraged Amazon, Google, and Oracle to plan multi-billion-dollar facilities in the kingdom.

Humain says it will pair the new hardware with large-scale Arabic language models to establish a regional center of gravity for generative AI research and deployment.