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As global cloud providers race to stand up in-Kingdom regions, the real competition in Saudi Arabia is shifting from launch announcements to who actually wins enterprise AI workloads.
A reported backlog of $638 billion, over half of it from one customer, funded by capital expenditure that pushed free cash flow deeply negative. That combination is why an AI model launch now moves an enterprise software company's share price.
Under a multi-year agreement announced alongside HPE's third-quarter results, Oracle will put HPE Juniper routing and switching into its AI data centres globally. HPE issued Oracle warrants over its own shares as part of the deal, which is the unusual detail.
Eleven universities, 10,000 women, two innovation centres and an Amazon Academy target above 100,000 people. The megawatts get the headline; the cohorts determine how fast the region fills.
Read the enterprise announcements together and the same structure appears repeatedly: global vendors renting Saudi delivery capacity. The scarce input is not capacity or product — it is people who can execute a migration.
At a show full of future capacity announcements, Oracle showcased stc, Ma'aden and Zain running on infrastructure that is already in the ground.
Oracle is using its LEAP 2026 stand to recruit Saudi nationals into Mostaqbali, the digital skills programme it runs with the communications ministry and the National eLearning Center, which targets 50,000 participants across 23 training tracks.
Oracle and AMD have expanded their strategic partnership to deploy an unprecedented AI supercluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Beginning in Q3 2026, Oracle will be the first hyperscaler to offer a publicly available AI supercluster powered by an initial deployment of 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs.