AWS to build 50MW AI Zone in Saudi Arabia with HUMAIN, mixing Trainium and Nvidia GPUs
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-09-06
- AWS is deploying its first AI Zone in Saudi Arabia with HUMAIN in 2028, up to 50MW of capacity, featuring both AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs.
- Context: AMD and Cisco recently launched a live deployment of MI335X GPUs and EPYC CPUs with Cisco Silicon One AI networking in partnership with HUMAIN, planning up to 250MW in the next buildout starting 2027.
- Saudi Arabia is becoming a key Middle East AI compute hub, with multiple US chip and cloud vendors racing to deploy.
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