DataVolt, a Saudi-based large-scale data center infrastructure developer, and HUMAIN, an artificial intelligence company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), have announced an expanded partnership to develop 100 MW of the 360 MW AI-ready data center at Oxagon, the industrial city on the Red Sea coast in NEOM.
The announcement was made on the sidelines of the LEAP 2026 technology summit that is underway at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham, Saudi Arabia. Readers would recall that DataVolt had originally announced the 1.5 GW net zero AI factory campus in Oxagon last February during LEAP 2025. With construction now underway, the project moves from planning into execution.
In a press release, DataVolt said that the facility will form part of the 360 MW first phase of DataVolt’s planned AI data center campus at Oxagon. The facility is expected to integrate renewable energy sources, innovative cooling technologies, and high-performance computing clusters to support large-scale AI and cloud workloads, with the first 100 MW anticipated to be available in 2028.
“AI ambition only matters when you can turn it into infrastructure, compute and capacity that customers can use,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “That is what this partnership with DataVolt is about. Construction is underway, 100MW is moving forward, and we are building with the speed and scale that the next era of AI demands.”
“AI infrastructure at this scale demands more than capital and capacity, but disciplined execution, from power and engineering through construction and operations,” said Rajit Nanda, CEO of DataVolt. “Our partnership with HUMAIN brings together our complementary capabilities with a clear focus on delivery and bringing world class digital infrastructure capacity to the Kingdom. Breaking ground at Oxagon is an important milestone as we move forward with the first 360MW phase and build the infrastructure required to support AI compute at scale.
The companies expect the project to benefit from Oxagon’s industrial infrastructure – pre-zoned industrial land availability, at scale energy resources and access to low-latency compute through subsea cable connectivity to Europe and Africa.
“Breaking ground on the HUMAIN and DataVolt project is an important demonstration of the industrial ecosystem taking shape at Oxagon,” said Eng. Aiman Al-Mudaifer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Office of NEOM. “The ability to secure the power, land and connectivity needed to grow is becoming critical to the economics of AI. As progress on the first phase of DataVolt’s AI campus accelerates, Oxagon is bringing these advantages together to create a strong proposition for companies building the infrastructure required for the next generation of AI.”
The project comes as global demand for AI infrastructure continues to accelerate, increasing requirements for power, high-density data center capacity and the infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly powerful computing systems. The HUMAIN-DataVolt partnership aims to address that demand by combining AI capabilities with infrastructure delivery at scale, creating a pathway from data center capacity to deployable AI compute.
According to Mordor Intelligence, Saudi Arabia’s data center market is expected to grow from an estimated US$ 2.38 billion in 2026, to US$ 4.35 billion by 2031, at 12.84 percent CAGR over 2026-2031.