Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L) talks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum astatine the Kennedy Center connected Nov. 19, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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Nvidia and xAI said connected Wednesday that a ample information halfway installation being built successful Saudi Arabia and equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips volition number Elon Musk's artificial quality startup arsenic its archetypal customer.
Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were some successful attendance astatine the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum successful Washington, D.C.
The announcement builds connected a concern from May, erstwhile Nvidia said it would supply Saudi Arabia's Humain with chips that usage 500 megawatts of power. On Wednesday, Humain said the task would see astir 600,000 Nvidia graphics processing units.
Humain was launched earlier this twelvemonth and is owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund. The program to physique the information halfway was initially announced erstwhile Huang visited Saudi Arabia alongside President Donald Trump.
"Could you imagine, a startup institution astir 0 cardinal dollars successful revenues, present going to physique a information halfway for Elon," Huang said.
The installation is 1 of the astir salient examples of what Nvidia calls "sovereign AI." The chipmaker has said that nations volition progressively request to physique information centers for AI successful bid to support nationalist information and their culture. It's besides a perchance monolithic marketplace for Nvidia's pricey AI chips beyond a fistful of hyperscalers.
Huang's quality astatine an lawsuit supported by President Trump is different motion of the administration's absorption connected AI. Huang has go affable with the president arsenic Nvidia lobbies to summation licenses to vessel aboriginal AI chips to China.
When announcing the agreement, Musk, who was a large fig successful the aboriginal days of the 2nd Trump administration, concisely mixed up the size of the information center, which is measured successful megawatts, a portion of power. He joked that plans for a information halfway that would beryllium 1,000 times larger would person to wait.
"That volition beryllium 8 bazillion, trillion dollars," Musk joked.
Humain won't conscionable usage Nvidia chips. Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm volition besides merchantability chips and AI systems to Humain. AMD CEO Lisa Su and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon some attended a authorities meal connected Tuesday to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
AMD volition supply chips that whitethorn necessitate arsenic overmuch arsenic 1 gigawatt of powerfulness by 2030. The institution said the chips that it would supply are its Instinct MI450 GPUs for AI. Cisco volition supply further infrastructure for the information center, AMD said.
Qualcomm volition merchantability Humain its caller information halfway chips that were archetypal revealed successful October, called the AI200 and AI250. Humain volition deploy 200 megawatts of Qualcomm chips, the institution said.
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