Contractor awarded contract to build 6GW AI datacenter campus infrastructure in Middle East.

Dammam-based construction firm Al-Yamama Company for Trading & Contracting has won a contract to develop infrastructure for a planned 6GW hyperscale artificial intelligence data centre campus in Riyadh. The project will be delivered on an early contractor involvement (ECI) basis, under which selected contractors submit methodologies and design proposals before one team is selected to deliver the construction works.

The client is Saudi Arabia's AI company Humain, owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which released the contract for tender in May. The project team includes Canadian engineering firm Hatch, France's Egis, and US-based JLL.

The infrastructure scope encompasses construction of a 380kV/132kV/33kV electrical distribution network with two substations (500MVA and 200MVA capacity) and a bulk supply point (2,000MVA), as well as water and fire protection systems, a sewage treatment plant and wastewater network, stormwater systems, roads, underground cable and fibre optic networks, and landscaping works.

The development will occupy a 24-square-kilometre site in the Al-Saad area of east Riyadh, to be delivered across two phases on six plots with 1GW capacity each.

Humain, launched in May last year, operates across the AI value chain and is developing full-stack AI capabilities in four core areas: next-generation data centres, hyper-performance infrastructure and cloud platforms, and advanced AI models, including Allam. In May 2025, Humain signed preliminary deals with US chipmakers AMD and Nvidia to build multibillion-dollar advanced digital infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. AMD has committed to invest up to $10bn to deploy 500MW of AI compute capacity in the kingdom over the next five years. In October 2025, the PIF and Saudi Aramco signed a non-binding term sheet under which Aramco would acquire a minority stake in Humain, with the PIF retaining majority ownership.