Elon Musk and Jensen Huang shared plans to build some of the world’s largest data centers in the Middle East as Mohammed bin Salman continues his visit to the United States.

Elon Musk, CEO of xAI and Tesla, announced a massive new data center project in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s continues his formal visit to the United States on Wednesday.

In partnership with Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN AI company, which was established with the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, Musk said the 500-megawatt data center for xAI would be powered by Nvidia’s computing chips.

In comparison, xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis — one of the world’s largest working computing clusters — represents around 300 megawatts of computing power.

Separately, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a 100-megawatt data center for Amazon Web Services “with a gigawatt ambition and counting,” also to be powered by Nvidia chips.

Wednesday’s announcements come on the heels of Tuesday’s unveiling of a new AI Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, giving “the Kingdom access to world-leading American systems while protecting U.S. technology from foreign influence,” according to the White House.

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