Scrutica
Some access via partnerships but subject to conditions. AI Diffusion Rule (rescinded) would have placed SA in Tier 2.
Country-level aggregation: 18 facilities, 203 organizations, 10 supply chain edges. Export control tier: Restricted. 1 sovereign AI program.
What Saudi Arabia can build, what it depends on imports for, and which export control regimes constrain its access to frontier hardware.
Compute Posture
Saudi Arabia has 18 tracked facilities, 2.9 GW aggregate power capacity, 81,922 AI accelerators, under case-by-case licensing for advanced AI chips. 1 sovereign AI program with $77.0B announced. Supply chain footprint: 10 relationships (8 as supplier, 2 as customer).
| 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); SDAIA 500+ H100 operational; KAUST 3,000+ GPUs. Frontier hardware accessible with case-by-case export approval friction. 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)
| Name | Type | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Saudi for Information Technology LLC | other | -- |
| Saudi Arabia Government | government | -- |
| Branch of Dell Free Zone Company LLC | other | -- |
| NVIDIA facility |
| other |
| announced |
| 500 |
| -- |
| Nvidia |
| HUMAIN Saudi Arabia Phase 2 | ai training | announced | 500 | -- | Humain |
| DataVolt Neom 1.5 GW Phase 1 | ai training | announced | 300 | -- | Datavolt |
| 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 | 39,450 | 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 | 15,824 | Saudi Aramco |
| Saudi Aramco Tuwaiq-1 | ai training | operational | 1 | 832 | Saudi Aramco |
| Oracle $10B Saudi Arabia Investment | ai training | announced | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| OCI Saudi Arabia Central (Riyadh) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| Quantum Switch DMM A | colocation | operational | -- | -- |
| center3 JED2 - Jeddah | colocation | operational | -- | -- |
| Neom Hyper Scale Data Center | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | -- |
| OCI Saudi Arabia West (Jeddah) | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- | Oracle Corporation |
| GCP Middle East Central 2 | hyperscale dc | operational | -- | -- |
| Alibaba Cloud in Saudi Arabia | ai training | operational | -- | -- | Alibaba |
Binding layer: GPU Design (NVIDIA (US, EAR)). US entity, directly subject to Export Administration Regulations
NVIDIA confirmed 400K-600K GPU orders over 3 years via partners
| Ingeus, LLC | other | -- |
| Saudi Bugshan | government | -- |
| Arabian Rig Manufacturing Company | 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 | -- |
| Pure Storage Saudi Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| IQVIA Regional Headquarter | other | -- |
| IQVIA Research and Development Solutions Saudi Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| IQVIA Solutions Saudi Arabia Limited | other | -- |
| Eaton Arabia Industrial Company LLC | other | -- |
| Eaton Electrical Services LLC | other | -- |
| Dell Technologies Regional Headquarter Company | other | -- |
| Dell Technologies Single Shareholder Limited Liability Company | other | -- |
| Zoom Arabia Communications Company | other | -- |