Scrutica
Some access via partnerships but subject to conditions. AI Diffusion Rule (rescinded) would have placed SA in Tier 2.
Country-level aggregation: 19 facilities, 164 organizations, 1 supply chain edges. Export control tier: Restricted. 1 sovereign AI program.
Saudi Arabia's domestic compute and its import dependencies, set against the export-control regimes that gate its access to frontier hardware.
Compute Posture
Saudi Arabia has 19 tracked facilities, 2.6 GW aggregate power capacity, 53,869 AI accelerators, under case-by-case licensing for advanced AI chips. 1 sovereign AI program with $77.0B announced. Supply chain footprint: 1 relationships (0 as supplier, 1 as customer).
Structural Note
High import orientation: Saudi Arabia appears exclusively as a customer in 1 supply chain edges with no tracked export relationships, entirely reliant on external suppliers for compute inputs.
| Name | Type | Status | Power (MW) | GPUs | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataVolt Neom 1.5 GW Phase 2 | ai training | announced | 1,500 | -- | Datavolt |
GB300 confirmed delivery (18,000 Phase 1 to HUMAIN, May 2025); SDAIA 500+ H100 operational; KAUST 3,000+ GPUs. Frontier hardware accessible with case-by-case export approval friction (Nov 20 2025 BIS license cleared up to 35,000 GB300 cumulative to HUMAIN). Per-chip performance gap ~0 (GB300 is frontier). Ratio reflects access friction, not capability gap. (is_estimated: true, authority tier 3 — delivery confirmed via NVIDIA press release but aggregate capacity unverified; 600K three-year HUMAIN ambition is announced not contracted)
| Name | Type | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Saudi for Information Technology LLC | other | -- |
| Red Hat Saudi Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| Equinix Saudi for Information Technology LLC | other |
Per-layer scoring across the 8 compute-stack layers.
Total power capacity (MW) across Saudi Arabia's tracked facilities, drawn from the append-only compute_capacity_snapshots substrate. Each weekly cron firing adds a point; tooltips show per-snapshot provenance.
Licensed supply-chain database relationship edges, split by direction. Export-side ranks countries that depend on Saudi Arabia as a supplier; import-side ranks countries Saudi Arabia depends on. Domestic intra-country edges excluded.
No tracked exports from Saudi Arabia
partner → Saudi Arabia (top 1)
| Partner | Edges | Value |
|---|---|---|
| India IN | 1 | — |
Relationship values not disclosed for these edges.
| HUMAIN Saudi Arabia Phase 2 |
| ai training |
| announced |
| 500 |
| -- |
| Humain |
| DataVolt Neom 1.5 GW Phase 1 | ai training | announced | 300 | -- | Datavolt |
| HUMAIN Riyadh Phase 1 | ai training | under construction | 100 | -- | Humain |
| HUMAIN Dammam Phase 1 | ai training | under construction | 100 | -- | Humain |
| HUMAIN Saudi Arabia/NVIDIA Phase 1 | ai training | announced | 50 | 18,000 | Humain |
| Saudi Data & AI Authority Sovereign AI factory | ai training | announced | 12 | 5,000 | Saudi Data And Artificial Intelligence Authority |
| Aramco Groq Inference Cluster | ai training | operational | 8 | 19,725 | Saudi Aramco |
| KAUST Shaheen-III | ai training | announced | 5 | 2,816 | King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology Kaust |
| Saudi Aramco Dammam-7 | ai training | operational | 5 | 7,912 | Saudi Aramco |
| Saudi Aramco Tuwaiq-1 | ai training | operational | 1 | 416 | Saudi Aramco |
| GCP Middle East Central 2 | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- |
| Oracle $10B Saudi Arabia Investment | ai training | announced | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| OCI Saudi Arabia West (Jeddah) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| Neom Hyper Scale Data Center | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | -- |
| center3 JED2 - Jeddah | colocation | operational | -- | -- | -- |
| Quantum Switch DMM A | colocation | operational | -- | -- | -- |
| OCI Saudi Arabia Central (Riyadh) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| Alibaba Cloud in Saudi Arabia | ai training | operational | -- | -- | Alibaba |
Binding layer: GPU Design (NVIDIA (US, EAR)). US entity, directly subject to Export Administration Regulations
Phase 1: 18,000 GB300 delivered to HUMAIN (confirmed, May 2025); 600K-GPU three-year target announced (HUMAIN press, May 2025) but not yet contracted; 35K GB300-class cumulative formally authorized to HUMAIN under Nov 20 2025 BIS license
| -- |
| Equinix Saudi for Information Technology LLC | other | -- |
| Equinix Saudi for Information Technology LLC | other | -- |
| Equinix Saudi for Information Technology LLC | other | -- |
| Saudi Arabia Government | government | -- |
| Branch of Dell Free Zone Company LLC | other | -- |
| Prosperity7 Ventures | investor | -- |
| Ingeus, LLC | other | -- |
| NVIDIA Saudi Ltd. | other | -- |
| Mandiant Arabia for Cyber Security | other | -- |
| Arabian Rig Manufacturing Company | other | -- |
| Saudi Aramco | other | -- |
| LUKOIL Saudi Arabia Energy | other | -- |
| Advance Int | other | -- |
| Riyad REIT | colocation provider | -- |
| Saudi Binladin Group Ltd. | epc | -- |
| Ahmed Abdulwahed Trading Co. | other | -- |
| Rezayat Group | epc | -- |
| Riyadh Cables Group | power provider | -- |
| Tesla Gulf Limited Company | other | -- |
| Palo Alto Networks Regional Headquarters Company | other | -- |
| Palo Alto Networks Saudi Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| Workday Arabia | other | -- |
| ServiceNow Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| ServiceNow Regional Headquarter Company | other | -- |
| Super Micro Computer Arabia Ltd. | other | -- |
| Intralinks Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| Pure Storage RHQ | other | -- |