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Saudi Arabian telco stc group announced on Thursday that it has formed a a strategic joint venture partnership with Humain, a Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF)-owned AI company, to build AI data centres in the country.

Under the deal signed by Humain and stc group's digital infrastructure subsidiary center3, the JV plans to develop and operate next-gen infrastructure capable of hosting up to 1GW of AI workloads.

Stc group CEO Olayan Alwetaid said the JV will leverage center3’s scale, data-centre leadership, and regional connectivity with Humain’s end-to-end AI capabilities to lay the groundwork for high-capacity, low-latency infrastructure needed to power the AI era.

Fahad AlHajeri, CEO of center3, added that the JV will support hosting of critical digital assets, foster an AI ecosystem and create a robust platform for the deployment of large language models (LLMs) and mission-critical AI applications.

“Leveraging our expanding data-centre footprint, interconnected platforms, and proven operations, we will deliver the density, resilience, and availability required for next-generation AI computing,” he said in a statement.

“AI at scale requires purpose-built compute, efficiency, and resilience,” added Humain CEO Tareq Amin. “Through this joint venture, Humain and stc group are engineering infrastructure capable of meeting the most demanding workloads while designed to support future advancements.”

Humain has been beefing up its AI solutions portfolio in the past few months. Last month alone it [announced a flurry of deals](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/vendor-news/19379-saudi-ai-company-humain-announces-multiple-deals.html) with big-name companies like Adobe, Amazon Web Services, xAI and Luma AI. In October, [Humain and AirTrunk](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/data-centres-networks/19265-new-strategic-partnership-targets-saudi-data-centre-market.html), a data centre platform in the Asia Pacific region, established a partnership to build data centres in Saudi Arabia.

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