AWS, HUMAIN TO DEPLOY 150,000 AI ACCELERATORS IN SAUDI ARABIA’S FIRST AI ZONE

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- Amazon Web Services Inc (AWS), an Amazon.com Inc company, and HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund (PIF) company, announced plans to provide, deploy and manage up to 150,000 artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators in a new data centre facility known as an “AI Zone” in Riyadh.

The announcement was made at the United States (US)-Saudi Investment Forum, where both companies also confirmed that AWS will become HUMAIN’s preferred global AI partner.

“The combination of HUMAIN’s local expertise with AWS’s AI infrastructure and services creates a world-class innovation hub for the region and beyond,” said AWS Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Tanuja Randery in a statement.

Meanwhile, HUMAIN Chief Executive Officer, Tareq Amin said the AI Zone marked the beginning of a multi-gigawatt journey engineered to meet both national priorities and global AI compute demand.

The first-of-its-kind AI Zone will support advanced AI training and inference workloads using NVIDIA GB300 infrastructure and AWS Trainium chips. The facility is designed to serve national AI priorities and rising global compute demand, enabling enterprises to accelerate model development, deployment, and scaling through secure, high-performance infrastructure integrated with AWS services.

Customers will gain access to AWS generative AI services—including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker—to build, tune, and run leading foundation models without managing underlying infrastructure.

HUMAIN will also join the AWS Solution Provider Program, giving regional and international customers unified access to AWS services as part of the companies’ joint plan, announced in May 2025, to invest over US$5 billion in AI infrastructure, cloud services, and talent development in Saudi Arabia. (US$1=RM4.14)

Beyond infrastructure, both companies will collaborate on AI adoption across public and private sectors, including the development of advanced Arabic large language models, such as ALLAM, and create a unified AI agent marketplace for government services.

AWS will also train 100,000 Saudi citizens in cloud and generative AI and support an initiative to upskill 10,000 women, contributing to the Kingdom’s goal of building an AI-ready economy projected to add US$130 billion to gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030.

-- BERNAMA