Topic: 2025 – Artificial Intelligence and Resource Consumption
Country: Saudi Arabia
Delegate Name: Dattasai Bobba
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recognizes the growing importance and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the current and future world. To become a global leader in the AI industry, we have created the company HUMAIN to serve as the Kingdom’s door into the world of AI. HUMAIN has partnered with NVIDIA to build datacenters throughout the country over the next five years which are projected to have a capacity of 500 megawatts. HUMAIN has also reached an agreement with the company xAI wherein xAI will be the first corporation to make use of these datacenters. We sincerely hope that our efforts in this area will allow the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to become a global leader in this new technology.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia acknowledges the resource heavy nature of AI and the immense quantity of rare-earth metals required to construct the components needed to train and house AI. Due to the growing capabilities of and demand for AI, the industry will only become more resource intensive in the future. To help meet the growing hunger of AI, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has redoubled its efforts in mining. In our territory we hold a projected 2.5 trillion dollars worth of the rare-earth metals so necessary for computer components. Our mining company, Ma’aden, is among the largest of its kind in the Middle East and one of the fastest growing mineral companies in the world.
In acknowledgement of climate change and the various environmental maladies occurring throughout the world, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulazziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, created the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI) for the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2060. SGI follows the Circular Carbon Economy approach and since its creation we have invested more than 180 billion dollars in combating climate change.
All of these goals, artificial intelligence, resource production, and climate activism, are part of our Vision 30 plan. Vision 30 is our plan to diversify the Saudi economy and move away from a fossil fuel based system, improve public sectors, and to create a more vibrant society. Our mining and AI investments both serve the purpose of making the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia less reliant on oil to keep the economy running smoothly, and SGI will protect future generations from climate-based adversity.
