Saudi AI firm Humain is pouring billions into data. Will it pay off?
Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, attend the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters Saudi Arabia is looking to make data its new oil — if artificial intelligence and data center company Humain gets its way. The company, owned by the Saudi kingdom's massive sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, is looking to build out data center capacity in a country with seemingly unlimited land and abundant energy re