The National Infrastructure Fund (Infra) and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, signed on Monday two financing agreements totaling up to SAR 2.5 billion ($667 million) to support AI computing deployment and the development of critical power infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. The agreements were signed in Riyadh in the presence of Governor of the Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Minister of Economy and Planning and Chairman of Infra’s Board of Directors, Faisal bin Fadhil Alibrahim and Governor of the National Development Fund, Abdulaziz Alarifi. The facilities are the first transactions announced under Infra’s AI Data Center Financing Program. They build on the strategic financing framework announced by Infra and HUMAIN at Davos in January 2026, which outlined non-binding financing terms of up to SAR 4.5 billion ($1.2 billion) to support AI and digital infrastructure projects in the Kingdom. The GPU financing facility, of up to SAR 1.1 billion ($293.3 million), will support the procurement and deployment of graphics processing units (GPUs), representing approximately 25 MW of IT load. A second facility of up to SAR 1.4 billion ($373.3 million), will finance the development of substations, transmission infrastructure and grid connections to support HUMAIN’s AI data centers in Saudi Arabia. The planned power infrastructure is designed to support future data center development with up to 1 GW of IT capacity, helping create the conditions for investment by developers, hyperscalers and institutional investors. “Through these agreements, we aim to unlock investment well beyond Infra’s own commitment,” said Chief Executive Officer of Infra, Engineer Esmail bin Mohammed Alsallom. He noted that supporting HUMAIN’s computing deployment alongside essential power infrastructure helps prepare a broader pipeline of data center projects for investment. “Our role is to strengthen project readiness and bankability, with commercial viability and economic value guiding how we deploy our capital,” Alsallom said, adding that this partnership connects Infra’s priorities with commercial discipline, helping build a financing market that can attract a broader pool of private and institutional capital and sustain the local AI infrastructure growth. For his part, Chief Executive Officer of HUMAIN, Tareq Amin, said that AI infrastructure is becoming foundational to the next generation of computing, and scaling it requires both significant investment and the infrastructure to support it. “These facilities with Infra will help accelerate the deployment of advanced computing capacity and the power infrastructure required to support it. At HUMAIN, we are focused on building and operating AI infrastructure at scale, while developing the technologies and platforms that enable organizations and customers globally to put AI to work,” he added.
