Where LEAP 2026's nearly $15 billion actually went

A big number, broken into its parts LEAP 2026 produced close to $15 billion in announced technology commitments, spanning cloud infrastructure, data centres, AI partnerships and related deals, according to my.gov.sa's official summary of the event . Headline totals of that size are easy to cite and hard to actually picture, so this piece works through the individual, disclosed pieces that make up the figure, and is explicit about which parts of the total were not broken out in detail in public materials. Cloud infrastructure: the largest single disclosed figure The single largest disclosed figure inside LEAP's overall tally is AWS's planned $5.3 billion investment tied to its new Saudi cloud region, set to launch in December 2026, as TechScoop covered in its piece on the AWS region timeline . Microsoft's competing Azure region, arriving even earlier in November, was announced without an equivalent disclosed investment figure attached in the materials TechScoop has reviewed, so this piece treats any Microsoft investment figure as undisclosed rather than estimating one. AI-specific compute capacity, measured in megawatts rather than dollars The AWS-HUMAIN AI zone expansion to as much as 50 megawatts of capacity, targeted around 2028 and covered in TechScoop's piece on the AI zone's expansion , was announced with a capacity figure rather than a disclosed dollar investment. That is a common pattern in AI infrastructure announcements generally: megawatts, not dollars, are often the headline metric, because capacity is the number that actually tells operators and customers how much compute the facility can support, even when it leaves the dollar cost of getting there unstated. Adobe's partnership: the largest AI-software commitment Adobe's more than $4 billion commitment to its expanded Saudi partnership, built around Firefly, Express and integration with HUMAIN and aimed at 27 million eligible users, is the largest single AI-software-specific figure inside LEAP's overall total, as TechScoop detailed in its coverage of the Adobe deal . Combined with the AWS cloud-region figure, these two commitments alone account for more than $9 billion of the roughly $15 billion total — well over half of the headline figure sitting inside just two disclosed deals. Data centres: two more disclosed figures Beyond the hyperscaler and software deals, two dedicated data-centre projects added further disclosed figures to the total. MIS outlined a $1.2 billion expansion plan targeting 192 megawatts of capacity, as TechScoop covered in its piece on the MIS expansion , while NHC Innovation detailed an $800 million Khuzam Digital Valley project with a path to roughly 65 megawatts of potential capacity by 2033, covered in TechScoop's report on the Khuzam project . Together, MIS and NHC Innovation's disclosed figures add a further $2 billion to the running total, bringing the sum of individually disclosed figures TechScoop has been able to verify to roughly $11.3 billion. On the disclosed numbers, MIS's plan works out to roughly $6 million per megawatt and NHC Innovation's to roughly $12 million per megawatt, although the two projects differ in scope and timeline, so the ratios are not a like-for-like comparison. The gap between disclosed figures and the headline total That $11.3 billion in individually verifiable, named commitments — AWS's $5.3 billion, Adobe's $4 billion-plus, MIS's $1.2 billion and NHC Innovation's $800 million — leaves a gap of roughly $3 to $4 billion between what can be attributed to specific, named deals and the nearly $15 billion headline figure cited for the event overall. The event's announcements also spanned manufacturing, venture capital and other categories, which were not broken out company by company in the materials available to TechScoop, so the remainder cannot be attributed to named deals here. Rather than estimate how that remainder splits, this piece leaves it explicitly as undisclosed. On the disclosed figures, that remainder comes to up to roughly $3.7 billion. Why the category breakdown matters more than the total The nearly-$15-billion figure makes for an easy headline, but the category breakdown is more useful for understanding where this wave of commitments is directed. Cloud infrastructure and AI-specific compute capacity are, on the numbers available, the largest categories — general-purpose cloud regions from AWS and Microsoft, plus dedicated AI capacity from the AWS-HUMAIN zone, MIS and NHC Innovation. Software and model partnerships, led by Adobe's commitment, form the next largest visible category. Manufacturing and venture capital are part of the overall total, but their share was not itemised in the materials TechScoop reviewed, so the disclosed figures in this piece are concentrated in infrastructure and corporate partnerships. What to watch for next Because several of the largest commitments here — the AWS and Microsoft cloud regions, the AWS-HUMAIN AI zone, the MIS and NHC Innovation