Construction has officially started on a 100MW AI-ready data centre facility at Oxagon, the coastal industrial city within NEOM.

The project is being delivered through a partnership between HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund business focused on artificial intelligence capabilities, and Saudi digital infrastructure company DataVolt. Announced at LEAP, the 100MW build serves as the first section of a 360MW opening phase. The inaugural capacity should be fully operational by 2028.

The high-density site is designed to process demanding artificial intelligence and cloud computing workloads. The design integrates renewable power solutions, custom cooling technologies and high-performance hardware clusters. HUMAIN brings technical expertise across the software and computing stack to the table, whilst DataVolt handles the funding, construction and operational management.

“AI ambition only matters when you can turn it into infrastructure, compute and capacity that customers can use,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “That is what this partnership with DataVolt is about. Construction is underway, 100MW is moving forward, and we are building with the speed and scale that the next era of AI demands.”

For DataVolt, breaking ground signals the start of a much larger vision. The initial 360MW phase represents the start of a proposed 1.5GW industrial campus at Oxagon, expanding on its operational pipeline across the Kingdom and Central Asia.

“AI infrastructure at this scale demands more than capital and capacity, but disciplined execution, from power and engineering through construction and operations,” said Rajit Nanda, CEO of DataVolt. “Our partnership with HUMAIN brings together our complementary capabilities with a clear focus on delivery and bringing world class digital infrastructure capacity to the Kingdom. Breaking ground at Oxagon is an important milestone as we move forward with the first 360MW phase and build the infrastructure required to support AI compute at scale.”

The joint venture benefits directly from Oxagon’s ready-to-build industrial plots, direct energy links and low-latency subsea cable networks running straight into Europe and Africa. Global demand for intensive computing power continues to climb, making fast power access and operational efficiency critical factors for data site viability.

“Breaking ground on the HUMAIN and DataVolt project is an important demonstration of the industrial ecosystem taking shape at Oxagon,” said Eng. Aiman Al-Mudaifer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NEOM. “The ability to secure the power, land and connectivity needed to grow is becoming critical to the economics of AI. As progress on the first phase of DataVolt’s AI campus accelerates, Oxagon is bringing these advantages together to create a strong proposition for companies building the infrastructure required for the next generation of AI.”