NEOM's hydrogen plant is nearly finished
The NEOM Green Hydrogen Company venture was reported at around 90% complete in late 2025, with 257 wind turbines — and it is the power supply the region's compute programmes depend on.
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The NEOM Green Hydrogen Company venture was reported at around 90% complete in late 2025, with 257 wind turbines — and it is the power supply the region's compute programmes depend on.
The industrial district has been reframed as a coastal zone with a port, and reporting through 2026 points at AI data centres. On the site's properties, the fit is strong.
GPU density made cooling a strategic layer rather than a facilities cost — and in a region with 50°C summers, the physics is less forgiving than elsewhere.
A gigawatt of compute needs a power station. The constraint on Gulf AI capacity has moved from chips to grid connections, transformers and cooling.