HUMAIN, AMD, Cisco to form JV to deliver AI infrastructure

HUMAIN, AMD, and Cisco announced today, Nov. 20, plans to establish a joint venture to support Saudi Arabia’s position as a leading provider of AI solutions for regional and global customers.

In a statement received by Argaam, the three entities will serve as founding investors in the joint venture, which is expected to begin operations in 2026 with plans to combine HUMAIN’s data centers with AMD and Cisco technology, delivering modern data center capacity with efficient power and lower capital expenditures.

AMD and Cisco will act as exclusive technology partners to the joint venture, contributing their product and service portfolios to its development of up to 1 gigawatt (GW) of AI infrastructure by 2030.

The companies also announced the first phase of the project as a buildout of 100 megawatt (MW) AI infrastructure, with the intent to include HUMAIN modern data center capacity, AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs and Cisco’s industry-leading critical infrastructure.

The collaboration reflects the ambition to create a dynamic, AI-driven economy. Cisco’s latest AI Readiness Index shows that while 91% of Saudi organizations plan to deploy AI agents, only 29% currently have robust GPU capacity, highlighting the urgent need for advanced data center infrastructure.

These findings point to an urgent need for scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure, which AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN are building together. The collaboration is not only expected to deliver the compute capacity required for AI at scale, but also to strengthen the foundations of Saudi Arabia’s digital economy, supporting goals to localize innovation, talent, and technology.

HUMAIN was launched in May 2025 by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) to build the entire AI stack, including data centers, cloud infrastructure, models, and applications.