xAI partners with HUMAIN, part of Saudi Arabia's PIF

Partnered with HUMAIN, part of Saudi Arabia's PIF — designing, building and operating hyperscale GPU data centers in Saudi Arabia and deploying Grok nationwide

Why it matters

The race to secure compute through Gulf capital. The announcement gives no MW capacity, GPU count or construction start date, so it is all at the planning stage

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialx.aihttps://x.ai/news/grok-goes-global

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