Investment

Along with its Saudi AI datacentre build, Datavolt, Google, Oracle, Salesforce, AMD and Uber have said they are committed to the investment of $80bn in cutting-edge transformative technologies in both the US and Saudi Arabia.

Oracle said it plans to invest $14bn over the next 10 years to deliver cloud and AI technology to Saudi Arabia. “Thanks to the decisive actions and strong leadership of President Trump and his administration, Oracle is providing the world’s most advanced cloud and AI technology to Saudi Arabia,” said Safra Catz, CEO at Oracle. “Our expanded partnership with the kingdom will create new opportunities for its economy and deliver better health outcomes for its people.”

As part of Trump’s visit, Humain, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), also announced a $10bn deal with US chipmaker AMD to develop 500 megawatts of open, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient AI infrastructure that spans Saudi Arabia and the US.

Through the collaboration, Humain will oversee end-to-end delivery, including hyperscale datacentres, sustainable power systems and global fibre interconnects, while AMD has said it will be providing its AI compute processors and the AMD ROCm open software ecosystem.

Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, described the initiative as “an open collaboration to the world’s innovators”. “We are democratising AI at the compute level, ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination, not by infrastructure,” he said.

A number of US tech firms have made major investments in Saudi this year, driven by the kingdom’s ambitions to boost AI. Data for the Saudi Data and AI Authority from Accenture shows that generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to elevate its gross domestic product (GDP) by approximately $42.3bn by augmenting and automating nearly a third of all jobs.

In February, Accenture said it was collaborating with Google Cloud to accelerate the adoption of cloud and GenAI capabilities in Saudi Arabia to support the KSA’s local data, operational and software sovereignty needs. As part of this work, Google and Accenture announced a joint centre of excellence for GenAI.

During the Leap 2025 conference, Salesforce said it would be investing $500m in Saudi, with the focus again on AI. The company announced a regional head office in Riyadh, and as part of this expansion, Salesforce said it was working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver its Hyperforce, next-generation platform architecture to the kingdom.

The work with AWS means Salesforce’s global customers are able to run workloads locally through a distributed public cloud infrastructure that Salesforce said complies with local regulations.

Commenting on Salesforce’s plans, Abdullah Alswaha, minister of communications and information technology, said: “We look forward to seeing Salesforce expand its presence here and welcome the investment in AI that will drive unprecedented innovation and operational efficiency, supporting the realisation of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 goals.”

While the White House has linked Trump’s visit to the investments major tech firms are making in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom faces a number of challenges as it fleshes out its AI ambitions.

According to a March 2025 paper from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Vision 2030 represents a future-orientated vision to make religion less of a focal point of its society, particularly with regards to how Saudi Arabia is perceived internationally. But the paper notes that private-sector employers face the challenge of hiring Saudi citizens to fill high-skilled jobs. “This skills gap will only worsen as the kingdom targets a wide range of highly skilled sectors, including AI startups, green technology, datacentres, e-gaming, fintech and EV production,” it says.