Magna AI teams up with Emaar Executive

By Courtney Rivera 05/07/2026 2 min read 5 views

Saudi Arabia’s vision for sovereign AI has taken a significant step forward with the announcement of a new collaboration between Magna AI and Emaar Executive Company.

Magna AI, a joint venture between Trend Micro and Wistron Digital, utilizes NVIDIA technology to drive its operations.

EEC, a specialist in datacentre construction, engineering, and procurement, will work with Magna AI to support the development of sovereign AI datacentres and AI Factory infrastructure.

The partnership aims to deliver secure AI platforms and large-scale AI transformation programs across Saudi Arabia, with potential expansion into the wider MENA markets.

The agreement was formalized in Riyadh at the Global AI Show by Dr. Moataz BinAli, CEO of Magna AI, and Mr. Karthik Ramaswamy, CEO of Emaar Executive Company.

As Saudi Arabia advances its national digital transformation agenda, the need for trusted AI infrastructure is becoming increasingly important for the Kingdom’s long-term competitiveness.

Sovereign AI data centers and AI Factories are expected to play a critical role in enabling organizations to train, fine-tune, deploy, and operate advanced AI models while maintaining control over data, workloads, governance, and compliance.

Dr. Moataz BinAli stated that sovereign AI is only as strong as the infrastructure beneath it, and that infrastructure has to be built and operated to the highest engineering standards, in-Kingdom.

They also stated that Emaar Executive Company brings the proven construction and engineering discipline to turn AI ambition into operational data centers on the ground.

Together, they can give Saudi Arabia’s government and enterprise organisations AI infrastructure they own, control and can scale with confidence.

The CEO of Emaar Executive Company noted that building national-scale AI infrastructure calls for engineering discipline, local capability and trusted delivery.

By combining their EPC systems-integration strengths with Magna’s AI Factory expertise, they are positioned to build and operate the data center infrastructure that underpins the Kingdom’s AI agenda, to the standards national and enterprise institutions require.

The partnership between Magna AI and Emaar Executive Company is expected to help customers translate AI ambition into deployable infrastructure and measurable outcomes.

The agreement is fundamentally designed to support the planning, development, and delivery of sovereign AI datacentres, AI Factory infrastructure, secure AI platforms, and large-scale AI transformation programs across Saudi Arabia, with the potential to extend into wider MENA markets.

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Magna AI and Emaar Executive Company’s partnership is a notable development in the AI industry.