US and Saudi Arabia announce tech investments in new partnership
U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Multiple U.S. and Saudi companies will come together under a joint economic partnership to support artificial intelligence and computing infrastructure development in both countries.
The Trump administration committed to new investments with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, announcing the plan for industries in both nations to spend $600 billion on items like technology infrastructure, among others.
President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed an agreement of strategic economic partnership, which was secured in a meeting in Saudi Arabia. Private sector companies headquartered in both countries are leading the investments, with the Saudi Arabian-based DataVolt investing $20 billion in constructing AI data centers and energy infrastructure within the United States.
American companies like Google, Oracle, Salesforce, Advanced Micro Devices and Uber also committed $80 billion in “cutting-edge transformative technologies in both countries,” per the White House's announcement.
Google Cloud specified in a press release that its $10 billion investment will work in conjunction with Saudi technology company Humain to construct an AI hub. Based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, the AI hub is expected to aid Saudi, American and regional companies in business operations via advanced computational power.
The chief objectives of the AI hub are to bring Google AI’s technology to Saudi Arabia, support business development in the Middle East and North Africa region and advance U.S. AI solutions’ presence worldwide.
Google Cloud said it is slated to generate $35 billion for the U.S., along with about 11,000 American jobs, by 2040.
“We are proud of this partnership for a global AI hub that will accelerate the application of AI to deliver innovation, economic growth and societal benefits to Saudi Arabia and to global companies doing business in the region,” Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said. “In addition, together we will create highly-skilled jobs and deliver AI training programs to open new, rewarding career pathways for Saudis. We acknowledge and are grateful for the engagement and policies of both the Trump Administration and the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who are enabling strong execution and the benefits for both countries.”
NVIDIA released a statement on Tuesday as well, outlining the company’s new partnership with Saudi company HUMAIN. The investment partnership will begin with NVIDIA sending 18,000 of its NVIDIA BG300 Grace Blackwell AI supercomputing chips alongside its InfiniBand networking to HUMAIN. This will serve as foundational infrastructure in Saudi Arabia’s quest to train and deploy AI models.
“AI, like electricity and internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation,” said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. “Together with HUMAIN, we are building AI infrastructure for the people and companies of Saudi Arabia to realize the bold vision of the Kingdom.”
Leadership from these companies previously said that the construction of infrastructure — namely data centers — will be critical for the U.S. as it strives to maintain leadership in AI.
Oracle and AMD did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.
The provisions in the new U.S.-Saudi Arabia economic agreement follow several advanced technology commitments recently announced by the Trump administration, such as the Stargate project, which features investments in AI infrastructure from OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle.