{"id":947769,"date":"2025-07-18T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947769"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:33:06","slug":"political-goodwill-and-elon-musks-xai-eyeing-data-centre-deal-in-saudi-arabia-what-makes-the-region-sought-after-for-infrastructure-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/political-goodwill-and-elon-musks-xai-eyeing-data-centre-deal-in-saudi-arabia-what-makes-the-region-sought-after-for-infrastructure-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Political goodwill and &#8230;: Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI eyeing data centre deal in Saudi Arabia, what makes the region sought-after for infrastructure expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is in discussions to lease significant data center capacity in Saudi Arabia, a strategic move aimed at expanding its infrastructure in regions offering both cheap energy and political goodwill, according to people familiar with the matter, as reported by Bloomberg. The company is currently engaged in early talks with two potential partners in the Kingdom. One is Humain, a Saudi-backed AI firm, which has offered xAI &#8220;several gigawatts of capacity.&#8221; However, this ambitious proposal remains a long-term prospect, as Humain, though backed by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund, has yet to break ground on much of the infrastructure it has pledged to build. An arrangement with Humain would provide xAI with computing resources &#8220;years down the road&#8221; rather than a near-term solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is in discussions to lease significant data center capacity in Saudi Arabia, a strategic move aimed at expanding its infrastructure in regions offering both cheap energy and political goodwill, according to people familiar with the matter, as reported by Bloomberg. The company is currently engaged in early talks with two potential partners in the Kingdom. One is Humain, a Saudi-backed AI firm, which has offered xAI &#8220;several gigawatts of capacity.&#8221; However, this ambitious proposal remains a long-term prospect, as Humain, though backed by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund, has yet to break ground on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}