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Wednesday, Sep 02, 2026

HUMAIN and DataVolt Begin Work on Major AI Data Centre Campus at Neom

The partners have broken ground on the first phase of a planned 360-megawatt artificial intelligence data-centre campus at Oxagon, with the initial 100-megawatt development designed to serve rising demand for advanced computing capacity.

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