Saudi Arabia's Humain and Infra announce AI and digital infrastructure deal

Details: Vaughan O'Grady; Category: Data Centres & Networks; 23 January 2026; 8286 views

Saudi Arabia-headquartered global artificial intelligence company Humain and the National Infrastructure Fund, the Kingdom’s lead development financing partner for infrastructure, have announced a strategic financing framework agreement of up to US$1.2 billion.

The funding is to support the expansion of AI and digital infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia.

The agreement was announced on the sidelines of this week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. It outlines non-binding financing terms for Humain’s development of up to 250 MW of hyperscale AI data centre capacity. These data centres will deploy leading-edge GPUs for AI training and inference and support Humain’s local, regional and global customers.

In addition, the National Infrastructure Fund (known as Infra) and Humain have agreed to explore the establishment of an AI data centre investment platform. This would be anchored by the two organisations and structured to facilitate participation by global and local institutional investors to support further scaling of Humain’s AI strategy.

Infra says that this framework agreement underscores its key role in partnering with its counterparts to accelerate the delivery of infrastructure assets that are foundational to economic transformation and long-term productivity. It adds that the deal also demonstrates Humain’s commitment to deploying scalable computing capacity to capture growing commercial demand for advanced AI and data processing services.

It also keeps Humain, established as recently as May 2025, in the news. In December Saudi Arabian telco stc group announced a strategic joint venture partnership with Humain to build AI data centres in the country. There was also a flurry of announcements from Humain in November.