Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & NVIDIA Announce Building of AI Factories in the Region

[T0@st]

NVIDIA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have announced partnerships to transform the country into a global powerhouse in AI, cloud and enterprise computing, digital twins and robotics. During a state visit today with U.S. President Donald Trump and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that the effort will harness sovereign AI infrastructure and expertise to propel Saudi Arabia to the ranks of global hyperscale AI leaders. "AI, like electricity and internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation," Huang said. "Together with HUMAIN, we are building AI infrastructure for the people and companies of Saudi Arabia to realize the bold vision of the Kingdom."

"Our partnership with NVIDIA is a bold step forward in realizing the Kingdom's ambitions to lead in AI and advanced digital infrastructure," said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. "Together, we are building the capacity, capability and a new globally enabled community to shape a future powered by intelligent technology and empowered people."




Powerful Partnerships
NVIDIA and leading Saudi organizations will work together on several key initiatives:

• HUMAIN, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund focused on AI, is making a major investment to build AI factories in KSA with a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts powered by several hundred thousand of NVIDIA's most advanced GPUs over the next five years. The first phase of deployment will be an 18,000 NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer with NVIDIA InfiniBand networking.
• HUMAIN will deploy the country's first NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud to simulate and test physical AI solutions with digital twins.
• NVIDIA will strengthen the nation's computing ecosystem and train thousands of developers with the skills to solve complex challenges with accelerated computing and AI.
• NVIDIA and the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) will deploy up to 5,000 Blackwell GPUs for a sovereign AI factory and enable smart city solutions. NVIDIA and SDAIA will train government and university scientists and engineers on how to develop and deploy models for physical and agentic AI.
• Aramco Digital will develop AI computing infrastructure, collaborate with NVIDIA's startup ecosystem, establish AI enterprise platforms, and create an engineering and robotics center of excellence including NVIDIA platforms.

"This partnership with NVIDIA reflects SDAIA's commitment to harnessing and advancing the potential of data and AI through continuous innovation," said H.E. Dr. Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, president of the SDAIA. "It marks a significant step toward positioning the Kingdom as a leader among data- and AI-driven economies, and in building a knowledge-based society and an advanced digital economy aligned with the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030."

These initiatives will help industries such as energy, manufacturing and logistics to develop and deploy innovative solutions using the power of AI and digital twins to fuel growth and prosperity throughout the region, while boosting efficiency, safety and sustainability.

This effort will contribute to building a robust AI ecosystem and aligns with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 goals of economic diversification and digital leadership.

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[Caring1]

Ai Factories IMO can be one or more of three things, designed by Ai, Producing Ai, or run solely by Ai.
Combine the last two for Terminator level event.

 

[Philaphlous]

political comments begin in 3....2....1....

 

[The N]

Ai Factories IMO can be one or more of three things, designed by Ai, Producing Ai, or run solely by Ai.
Combine the last two for Terminator level event.

And its scary.

 

[Chomiq]

KSA and Humain used in same sentence, ha!

 

[Jtuck9]

"Deep learning models are usually evaluated in terms of accuracy, the researchers note. “We propose that the total energy and carbon footprint of model development and training is reported alongside accuracy and similar metrics,” in order to make the field more environmentally friendly overall."

It's time to talk about the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence

“Deep learning” algorithms are usually evaluated in terms of accuracy—but some researchers say they should also be judged on their environmental impact.

www.anthropocenemagazine.org

Fascinating to see the broader relative environmental impact

Holistically Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Creating Language Models

As the performance of artificial intelligence systems has dramatically increased, so too has the environmental impact of creating these systems. While many model developers release estimates of the power consumption and carbon emissions from the final training runs for their latest models, there...

arxiv.org

 

[gozzima]

As seen in the attached picture, Saudi Arabia produces electricity mainly with gas and oil.
This gives an average of 552 gCO2/kWh which is a very bad figure. Helping Saudi Arabia to become a world leader in AI is totally compliant with the new climate skeptic US administration but this is collectively not a good idea to localize very bug data centers in such countries.
Source : https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/SA/all/yearly

 

[ty_ger]

Ai Factories IMO can be one or more of three things, designed by Ai, Producing Ai, or run solely by Ai.
Combine the last two for Terminator level event.

I think narrowing every possibility down to just "Terminator" is silly and devalues the real possibilities and concerns. People don't take it seriously if you joke about Terminator. Terminator is theoretically possible, but hype. A much greater possibility is poverty, a greater divide in wages and status, hopelessness and desperation, and people willingly making themselves essentially slaves. There is no chance that anyone with money and status who wants more money by replacing its workforce with robots will come around to caring about the people who were displaced and will fight for giving them an income and what they need.
The political people at the heart of this, the wealthy people at the heart of this, and the developers at the heart of this are all bad people. There is no well-known mover at the center of this who isn't objectively a bad person in other aspects of their life. They have a history of abuse. I don't have much hope for a good end result.
I think making the villain a fanciful sci-fi character gives the real villains too much grace.

 

[mechtech]

No leather jacket?!?! Is that pic photoshopped????

 

[Wirko]

No leather jacket?!?! Is that pic photoshopped????

Yeah... People will read the news post, see the pics, forget all the ugly facts, and remember this detail (probably an optical illusion) forever.

 

[Paganstomp]

to realize the bold vision of the Kingdom...

Yep. Clear as mud.

 

[Rafi2022]

As seen in the attached picture, Saudi Arabia produces electricity mainly with gas and oil.
This gives an average of 552 gCO2/kWh which is a very bad figure. Helping Saudi Arabia to become a world leader in AI is totally compliant with the new climate skeptic US administration but this is collectively not a good idea to localize very bug data centers in such countries.
Source : https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/SA/all/yearly

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Ye right, CO2 bullshit. We need it here.

 

[OkieDan]

As seen in the attached picture, Saudi Arabia produces electricity mainly with gas and oil.
This gives an average of 552 gCO2/kWh which is a very bad figure. Helping Saudi Arabia to become a world leader in AI is totally compliant with the new climate skeptic US administration but this is collectively not a good idea to localize very bug data centers in such countries.
Source : https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/SA/all/yearly

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I hear the administration is cracking down on arson, which is a large producer of CO2. Seems pretty based to me.