Tareq Amin: Humain pays power tariffs equivalent to Google and AWS
Tareq Amin · Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower · Nov 4, 2025 · at 14:48
Tareq Amin, CEO of Saudi AI initiative Humain, responds to Chamath Palihapitiya's question about whether Humain gets free or heavily subsidized energy for compute clusters.
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“My rates, my tariff is equivalent to what Google would get to what AWS get.”
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