stc group, a Middle Eastern telecommunications group that provides a variety of services encompassing digital infrastructure, through its dedicated digital infrastructure subsidiary center3, has announced a strategic Joint Venture (JV) partnership with HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, to build AI data centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In a press release stc said that this collaboration will develop and operate infrastructure capable of hosting up to 1 GW of AI workloads. The JV brings together center3’s scale, data-center experience, and extensive regional connectivity, with HUMAIN’s strategic mandate to champion end-to-end capabilities, in an attempt to lay the groundwork for high-capacity, low-latency infrastructure critical to the AI era.
“This joint venture with HUMAIN reinforces our commitment to enabling the region’s digital future. By combining HUMAIN’s AI leadership with center3’s world-class data-center expertise, we are creating the right foundation to strengthen the region’s capacity to host next-generation AI workloads,” said Olayan Alwetaid, CEO, stc group.
Meanwhile, HUMAIN CEO, Tareq Amin said, “AI at scale requires purpose-built compute, efficiency, and resilience,” “Through this joint venture, HUMAIN and stc group are engineering infrastructure capable of meeting the most demanding workloads while designed to support future advancements.”
Fahad AlHajeri, CEO, center3, said, “Leveraging our expanding data-center footprint, interconnected platforms, and proven operations, we will deliver the density, resilience, and availability required for next-generation AI computing. This JV marks an important step in scaling the infrastructure foundation to meet surging regional market demand.”
This strategic alliance supports the high-performance hosting of critical digital assets, fosters the AI ecosystem, and aims to create a robust platform for the deployment of large language models (LLMs) and mission-critical AI applications.
